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Sentimental [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Abounding with sentiment, or just opinions or reflections; as a sentimental discourse.

2. Expressing quick intellectual feeling.

3. Affecting sensibility; in a contemptuous sense .

Sentimental [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic.

2. Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; -- often in a reproachful sense.

3. Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions.

Sentimentalism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.

Sentimentalist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that affects sentiment, fine feeling or exquisite sensibility.

Sentimentalist [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.

Sentimentality [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Affectation of fine feeling or exqisite sensibility.

Sentimentality [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being sentimental.

Sentimentalize [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To think or act in a sentimental manner, or like a sentimentalist; to affect exquisite sensibility.

Sentimentalize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject.

Sentimentally [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a sentimental manner.