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sentimentalism

sentimentalism noun: a liking for sentimental things.

Noun

sentimentalism (countable and uncountable, plural sentimentalisms)

  1. A liking for sentimental things.
  2. An overly sentimental thing or condition; bathos or sentimentality.
  3. A view according to which morality is somehow grounded in moral sentiments or emotions.

sentimentalism meaning in Malayalam

sentimentalism in Malayalam

ഭാവുകത്വം, ഭാവതീവ്രത, അതിഭാവുത്വം

Forms of sentimentalism

pluralsentimentalisms

Origin of sentimentalism

From sentimental + -ism.

Questions about sentimentalism

What does sentimentalism mean?
Sentimentalism means a liking for sentimental things.
What is sentimentalism in Malayalam?
Sentimentalism in Malayalam is ഭാവുകത്വം, ഭാവതീവ്രത, അതിഭാവുത്വം. See Sentimentalism meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is sentimentalism?
Sentimentalism is a noun.
What is the plural of sentimentalism?
The plural of sentimentalism is sentimentalisms.

Words near sentimentalism in the dictionary

  1. sentimentalised
  2. sentimentaliser
  3. sentimentalisers
  4. sentimentalises
  5. sentimentalising
  6. sentimentalism
  7. sentimentalisms
  8. sentimentalist
  9. sentimentalistic
  10. sentimentalistically
  11. sentimentalists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sentimentalism (page history and authors); sentimentalism (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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