sentimentality
nounEtymology From sentimental + -ity. The music sense is a calque of German Empfindsamkeit.
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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:
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Art, Arts, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music Historical Synonym of Empfindsamkeit.
- Derived terms
- oversentimentality, unsentimentality