as in sentimentalism
the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion)
the sentimentality of the story of star-crossed lovers only made it even more popular with moviegoers
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Recent Examples of sentimentality
Imaginative touches like that go a long way toward ameliorating the film’s small but not ignorable flaws, such as its tendency toward sentimentality in the last stretch and the gaping spaces where more character-building needs to be to land the plane safely.
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Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2025
Caught up in the sentimentality of his own fame, the Weeknd just can’t heed his own curtain call.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 16 May 2025
Cash Flow And Control Beyond sentimentality, real estate can offer a financial utility that aligns well with multi-generational planning.
—Dj Van Keuren, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
The episode also concludes the series itself, which routinely bounced between toe-curling raunch and a fierce sentimentality that sometimes clashed with its trademark cynicism.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 5 May 2025
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Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2025
Caught up in the sentimentality of his own fame, the Weeknd just can’t heed his own curtain call.
—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 16 May 2025
Cash Flow And Control Beyond sentimentality, real estate can offer a financial utility that aligns well with multi-generational planning.
—Dj Van Keuren, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
The episode also concludes the series itself, which routinely bounced between toe-curling raunch and a fierce sentimentality that sometimes clashed with its trademark cynicism.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 5 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sentimentality
sentimentalism
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The moment when Sean soothes Laszlo’s fears of losing his best human buddy by telling him that the fear of dying just makes every living moment more special — something else a centuries-old vampire wouldn’t understand — tiptoes right up to the edge of sentimentalism.—
Katie Rife,
Vulture,
19 Nov. 2024
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King’s honeyed voiceover begins the film with a kind of sentimentalism about childhood and its innocence.—
Lisa Kennedy,
Variety,
4 July 2024
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“Sentimentality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sentimentality. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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