sentimentality

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sen=ti=men=tal=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

sentimentality, n. [CF. F. sentimentalité.].

 The quality or state of being sentimental.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

sentimentality

affection, affectionateness, amativeness, amorousness, bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, corn, corniness, demonstrativeness, ecstasy, emotionalism, enchantment, goatishness, goo, gushiness, hearts-and-flowers, horniness, lovelornness, lovesickness, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, pathos, rapture, romanticism, sentiment, sentimentalism, sexiness, slop, sloppiness, slush, slushiness, soap opera, sob story, soppiness, stickiness, susceptibility, sweetness, sweetness and light, tackiness, tearfulness, tearjerker, tenderness, weepiness

ROGET THESAURUS

sentimentality

Sensibility

N sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness, moral sensibility, impressibility, affectibility, susceptibleness, susceptibility, susceptivity, mobility, vivacity, vivaciousness, tenderness, softness, sentimental, sentimentality, sentimentalism, excitability, fastidiousness, physical sensibility, sore point, sore place, where the shoe pinches, sensible, sensitive, impressible, impressionable, susceptive, susceptible, alive to, impassionable, gushing, warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted, tender as a chicken, soft, sentimental, romantic, enthusiastic, highflying, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive, excitable, oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned, fastidious, sensibly, to the quick, to the inmost core, mens aequa in arduis, pour salt in the wound.