SENTIMENTALISTS Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

sentimentalists

noun

plural of sentimentalist

as in romanticists

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Noun

Upon arrival, the girls find a community of ravers and psychedelic rockers, romantics and orgiastics, shamans who serve as doctors, and poets who believe themselves to be prophets.

— Robert Rubsam, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026
Many researchers and romantics alike believe this could be one of the earliest depictions of human affection.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of romantics

Noun

At its core, Dark Matter is a series about the folly and hubris of humankind, even when — nay, especially when — idealists have the power to achieve transformative change.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
The campaign, which has highlighted divides over support for Israel, is a show for moderates against progressives, insiders against outsiders and pragmatists against idealists.

— Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of idealists

Noun

The utopians invent paradise and the dystopians invent hell.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 30 Apr. 2026
The playwright understood something about the economic reasoning of such an innovation, however, for if the futurists and techno-utopians once imagined that machines would do all of our dreary work to free us to be artists, writers, and musicians, the opposite is now the case.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026

Definition of utopians

Noun

The Holbrook sisters are undersocialized and inexperienced with the world, and Herzog sees them as figures out of a fable, dreamers who talk incessantly about love and seem connected to the elemental and the ancient.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
Dolly also opened doors for generations of singers, songwriters, musicians and dreamers from every walk of life and across every continent.

— Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of dreamers

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After all, even if a Democrat wins the White House in 2028, the companies empowered by federal money and the ideologues who have taken over institutions will continue to influence Congress and voters.

— Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026
The tax revolt was a successful attempt by a small group of ideologues to capitalize on people’s justifiable anger at the cost-of-living crisis that followed the war in Vietnam, along with California’s runaway home prices.

— Maggie McGowan, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of ideologues

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