sentimentality
Meaning of sentimentality
- exaggerated and self-indulgent tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.
there are passages which verge on sentimentality
Information about sentimentality
- It is a name.
- The plural form of sentimentality is: sentimentalities.
- Languages in which sentimentality is used:
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Hyphenation of sentimentality
sen-ti-men-tal-ity
- It consists of 5 syllables and 14 chars.
- sentimentality is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
sentimentality synonyms
Meaning mawkishness:
mawkishness, drippiness, mushiness, soupiness, sloppiness
Meaning excessively sentimental behaviour, writing, or speech:
Meaning a sentimental longing or wistful affection for a period in the past:
Meaning a quality that evokes pity or sadness:
Meaning a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual:
Meaning art, objects, or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way:
Meaning excessive sentimentality, especially in music or films:
Meaning feeble or cloying sentimentality:
Meaning excessive sentiment:
Meaning waste water from a kitchen, bathroom, or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand:
Meaning the chief cereal crop of a district, especially (in England) wheat or (in Scotland) oats:
Meaning nonsense:
Meaning a food made from the pressed curds of milk, firm and elastic or soft and semi-liquid in texture:
Words that rhyme with sentimentality
Biblicality, Equality, Leviticality, Scripturality, abmodality, abnormality, aboriginality, accentuality, accidentality, accidentiality, achirality, actuality, acyclicality, adverbiality, aeriality, alamodality, ality, allodiality, alodiality, ambilaterality, ambisexuality, amorality, anality, analyticality, animality, anormality, anticommerciality, antimorality, antineutrality, antinormality, antiplurality, antirationality, antireality, antisensuality, antisexuality, antisociality, apoliticality, archiepiscopality, areality, artificiality, asexuality, atonality, attentionality, atypicality, autocephality, aviatoriality, axiality, balmorality, banality, bestiality