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sentimentality en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Latin sentimentumder. Old French sentementder. English sentiment English -al English sentimental Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English sentimentality From sentimental + -ity. The music sense is a calque of German Empfindsamkeit.

Meanings

  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.

Forms

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sentimentalities Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

oversentimentality · unsentimentality

Synonyms

Empfindsamkeit

Translations (22)

ro sentimentalitate (act of being sentimental) · fr sensiblerie (act of being sentimental) · eo sentimentaleco (act of being sentimental) · ca sentimentalitat (act of being sentimental) · pl uczuciowość (act of being sentimental) · de Empfindsamkeit (act of being sentimental) · tr duygusallık (act of being sentimental) · sk sentimentalita (act of being sentimental) · es sentimentalidad (act of being sentimental) · bg сантименталност (act of being sentimental) · hi भावुकता (act of being sentimental) · ru сентимента́льность (act of being sentimental) · fr sentimentalité (act of being sentimental) · hu szentimentalitás (act of being sentimental) · hu érzelgősség (act of being sentimental) · pl sentymentalność (act of being sentimental) · de Schmalz (act of being sentimental) · de Gefühlsseligkeit (act of being sentimental) · de Sentimentalität (act of being sentimental) · pl sentyment (act of being sentimental) · de Rührseligkeit (act of being sentimental) · tr santimantalite (act of being sentimental)