sentimentalist

noun

sen·​ti·​men·​tal·​ist -tᵊlə̇st 

plural -s

: one disposed to indulge in sensibility or sentimentality : romanticist

was essentially a sentimentalist with feelings close to the surface and stirred by the lightest touch

—G. S. Haight

the sentimentalist, who lives by illusions, is let down more gently in English fiction than in French

—Harry Levin

the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion

—William James

Word History

Etymology

sentimental entry 1 + -ist

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