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sentimentality

sentimentality noun: an act or state of being sentimental.

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

sentimentality meaning in Hindi and Malayalam

sentimentality in Hindi

act of being sentimental
भावुकता bhāvuktā

sentimentality in Malayalam

ഭാവുകത്വം, ഭാവതീവ്രത, അതിഭാവുകത്വപ്രവണത, വൈകാരികത്വം

Examples of sentimentality in a sentence

  • So-called momoirs, first-person accounts exploding some of the sentimentality about motherhood, include Andrea J.
  • Are you promoltigating your exorditation or articulating superficial sentimentality and amicable philosophical observation?
  • Bill Clinton has never shied away from displays of dewy-eyed, lip-biting sentimentality.

All 14 example sentences with sentimentality

Synonyms of sentimentality

Forms of sentimentality

pluralsentimentalities

Origin of sentimentality

From sentimental + -ity. The music sense is a calque of German Empfindsamkeit.

Words formed from sentimentality

Questions about sentimentality

What does sentimentality mean?
Sentimentality means an act or state of being sentimental.
What is sentimentality in Hindi?
Sentimentality in Hindi is भावुकता (bhāvuktā). See Sentimentality meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sentimentality?
Sentimentality is a noun.
What is the plural of sentimentality?
The plural of sentimentality is sentimentalities.

Words near sentimentality in the dictionary

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

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