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Sentimentality

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    falsely emotional in a maudlin way wordnet
  3. 3
    extravagant or affected feeling or emotion wordnet

Etymology

From sentimental + -ity.

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