sentimentalize
verbEtymology From sentimental + -ize.
1
To give a sentimental feel to.
- Let us not sentimentalize things just because they are old. Getting all dewy-eyed about it because it was started in the 17th century doesn't make sense when we're talking about the town dump.
2
To think or act in a sentimental manner; to get sentimental.
- he learnt to sentimentalize over cathedrals and monasteries , pictures and statues , saints and kaisers1857, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in Two Years Ago, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- oversentimentalize, sentimentalizer, unsentimentalized