Sentimentalist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who is sentimental.

    "But Flay, for all his longing to return to his birthplace was no sentimentalist in exile. His thoughts when they turned to the castle were by no means in the nature of reveries."

  2. 2
    someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality wordnet

Synonyms

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romanticromanticist

Example

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"He cried through the whole film, this soppy old sentimentalist."

Etymology

From sentimental + -ist.

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