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sentimentalities

sentimentalities is the plural of sentimentality.

Meaning of sentimentality

Noun

sentimentality (countable and uncountable, plural sentimentalities)

  1. (countable) An act or state of being sentimental.
    • Things that were implicit and largely unjudged in the book, filtered through layers of stiff-upper-lip irony — Fanny’s self-pity, Linda’s obliviousness — are now foregrounded and, for the most part, rendered banal, with “Beaches”-level platitudes and sentimentality.2021 July 29, Mike Hale, “Review: ‘The Pursuit of Love’ Against All Odds”, in The New York Times
  2. (historical, uncountable) Synonym of Empfindsamkeit.
    Synonyms:
    Empfindsamkeit

Questions about sentimentalities

What is sentimentalities the plural of?
Sentimentalities is the plural of sentimentality.

Words near sentimentalities in the dictionary

  1. sentimentalisms
  2. sentimentalist
  3. sentimentalistic
  4. sentimentalistically
  5. sentimentalists
  6. sentimentalities
  7. sentimentality
  8. sentimentalization
  9. sentimentalizations
  10. sentimentalize
  11. sentimentalized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sentimentalities (page history and authors); sentimentality (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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