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The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.
Lillie Langtry

Meaning of "sentimentalist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SENTIMENTALIST

sentimentalist  [ˌsɛntɪˈmɛntəlɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SENTIMENTALIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sentimentalist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SENTIMENTALIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sentimentality

Sentimentality originally indicated the reliance on feelings as a guide to truth, but current usage defines it as an appeal to shallow, uncomplicated emotions at the expense of reason. Sentimentalism in philosophy is a view in meta-ethics according to which morality is somehow grounded in moral sentiments or emotions. Sentimentalism in literature is both a device used to induce a tender emotional response disproportionate to the situation at hand,, and a heightened reader response willing to invest previously prepared emotions to respond disproportionately to a literary situation. "A sentimentalist", Oscar Wilde wrote, "is one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it." In James Joyce's Ulysses, Stephen Dadalus sends Buck Mulligan a telegraph that reads "The sentimentalist is he who would enjoy without incurring the immense debtorship for a thing done." James Baldwin considered that 'Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel...the mask of cruelty'.

Definition of sentimentalist in the English dictionary

The definition of sentimentalist in the dictionary is a person who tends to indulge the emotions excessively.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SENTIMENTALIST


brutalist
ˈbruːtəlɪst
capitalist
ˈkæpɪtəlɪst
catalyst
ˈkætəlɪst
Continentalist
ˌkɒntɪˈnentəlɪst
documentalist
ˌdɒkjʊˈmɛntəlɪst
environmentalist
ɪnˌvaɪrənˈmɛntəlɪst
fatalist
ˈfeɪtəlɪst
fundamentalist
ˌfʌndəˈmentəlɪst
governmentalist
ˌɡʌvəˈmɛntəlɪst
incrementalist
ˌɪnkrɪˈmentəlɪst
instrumentalist
ˌɪnstrəˈmɛntəlɪst
mentalist
ˈmentəlɪst
metalist
ˈmetəlɪst
metallist
ˈmɛtəlɪst
Occidentalist
ˌɒksɪˈdɛntəlɪst
Orientalist
ˌɔːrɪˈɛntəlɪst
philatelist
fɪˈlætəlɪst
sacramentalist
ˌsækrəˈmɛntəlɪst
titlist
ˈtaɪtəlɪst
transcendentalist
ˌtrænsɛnˈdɛntəlɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SENTIMENTALIST

sentience
sentiency
sentient
sentiently
sentiment
sentimental
sentimental value
sentimentalisation
sentimentalise
sentimentalism
sentimentalities
sentimentality
sentimentalization
sentimentalize
sentimentally
sentiments
sentimo
sentinel
sentinel animal
sentinelled

WORDS THAT END LIKE SENTIMENTALIST

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centralist
Federalist
finalist
generalist
herbalist
hospitalist
idealist
journalist
minimalist
nationalist
naturalist
photojournalist
realist
removalist
sensationalist
serialist
socialist
specialist
surrealist
vocalist

Synonyms and antonyms of sentimentalist in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «sentimentalist» into 25 languages

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The translations of sentimentalist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sentimentalist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

性情中人
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sentimentalista
570 millions of speakers

English

sentimentalist
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Translator English - Hindi

sentimentalist
380 millions of speakers
ar

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sentimentalist
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сентиментален
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sentimentalista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভাবপ্রবণ ব্যক্তি
260 millions of speakers

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sentimental
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Translator English - Malay

Sentimentalis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schwärmer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

感傷家
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

sentimentalist
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sentimentalist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đa cảm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உணர்ச்சி வயப்படுபவர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भावनात्मक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sentimentalist
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sentimentalista
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sentymentalny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сентиментальний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sentimental
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

sentimentalist
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sentimentalis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sentiment
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sentiment
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sentimentalist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SENTIMENTALIST»

The term «sentimentalist» is regularly used and occupies the 96.850 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SENTIMENTALIST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sentimentalist

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QUOTES WITH «SENTIMENTALIST»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sentimentalist.
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Lillie Langtry
The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SENTIMENTALIST»

Discover the use of sentimentalist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sentimentalist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Sentimentalist
Through the stories that follow the author stays close-cropped to this dilemma, highlighting the misunderstandings that occur between boyfriends and girlfriends, lovers, peers, colleagues, parents and children, and exploring the ways in ...
Stavros Stavros, 2010
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From the Idyll to the Novel: Karamzin's Sentimentalist Prose
Professor Hammarberg shows the range of Sentimentalism, its place in literary evolution, and the ways in which it anticipates the Romantic movement and the modern Russian novel.
Gitta Hammarberg, 2006
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A Sentimentalist Theory of the Mind
But this doesn't necessarily make it sentimentalist, and it would be odd to apply the term to davidson's model of action because he doesn't emphasize emotion, sentiment in the ordinary sense, in his model. And neither, for that matter, does the ...
Michael Slote, 2014
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Moral Sentimentalism
And even if moral principles and injunctions can strengthen or reinforce empathic concern for other people, they seem less basic and less central to (the) sentimentalist (view of) moral education than the inductive process and the modeling ...
Michael Slote Professor of Philosophy University of Miami, 2009
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Alarms and Discursions
Born in London, Chesterton was educated at St. Paul’s, but never went to college.
G. K. Chesterton, 2014
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The Ethics of Care and Empathy
If we take this line, then perhaps instrumental or means–end rationality can be understood in sentimentalist terms. We will no longer say that all failures to take the necessary means to one's ends (in the absence of other reasons, etc.) ...
Michael Slote, 2007
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Normative Sentimentalism and Animal Ethics
Chapter. 4: Non-Sentimentalist. Animal. Ethics. In this chapter I present the two most well-known arguments condemning the ways CAFO and research animals are currently treated. The first is Peter Singer's preference utilitarian view ...
Monica L. Gerrek, 2007
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Sentimental Rules : On the Natural Foundations of Moral ...
... dissociation problem by itself to uproot neosentimentalism, especially if there is no viable alternative in the offing. In the previous chapter, I set out the central constraints for developing an adequate sentimentalist account of moral judgment.
Shaun Nichols Professor of Philosophy University of Arizona, 2004
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Attachment from a Distance: Russian Sentimentalist Usage of ...
I then conclude with some preliminary observations on the ways in which the Sentimentalists' usage of the entry-style format influenced nineteenth-century Russian literature.
John Freitag Isham, 2006
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Contemporary Perspectives on Natural Law: Natural Law as a ...
Hutcheson is well known for his sentimentalist approach to the foundations of ethics as an account of moral virtue.1 Yet his method of determining the moral qualities of actions in connection with a concept of overall good seems unavoidably to ...
Ana Marta González, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SENTIMENTALIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sentimentalist is used in the context of the following news items.
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Oxford University Press, 2014
The aim of this relatively short book is to "defend a sentimentalist theory or philosophy of the mind" (xi). Together with Slote's earlier books - Moral ... «Metapsychology, Mar 15»
2
Obama the Sentimentalist
To which Graham replies, “And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any ... «National Review Online, Jan 15»
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Video Premiere: Sondre Lerche – “Sentimentalist
The John-Lennon-on-cough-syrup melody fits the contradictory “I'm no sentimentalist” sentiment of the track. Then the ending of the song gets all fuzzy and ... «CMJ, Nov 14»
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Album Review: Sondre Lerche – Please
Should we believe Sondre Lerche when he goes on the record saying he's no sentimentalist? This is a guy who has made a career out of pumping out ... «Consequence of Sound, Sep 14»
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Listen to New Sondre Lerche Track, "Sentimentalist"
Sentimentalist” is a lush, layered track of orchestral sounds that are fairly opposed to the catchy pop of “Bad Law,” building to a fuzzy and thunderous conclusion ... «Paste Magazine, Sep 14»
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Sondre Lerche - "Sentimentalist" (audio)
"Sentimentalist", the stunning, emotionally wrenching centerpiece to Sondre Lerche's forthcoming pop masterpiece Please, is available to stream through ... «PopMatters, Sep 14»
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The Grandmaster: More ambitious melancholia from the hard-nosed …
... of loss and missed chances. Like Wong Kar-wai, Gong is a hard-nosed sentimentalist to the bitter end: “Without regrets,” she says, “Life would be so boring.” ... «Globe and Mail, Aug 13»
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Oscar Wilde on Sentimentality, or Why I Still Dislike Mumford
A sentimentalist is simply one who wants to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. We think we can have our emotions for nothing. We cannot. «First Things, Oct 12»
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Making A Case For Massenet, The Misunderstood Sentimentalist
Even in his day, some considered Massenet a moldy sentimentalist who tried little more than to please his audiences. His elegantly crafted operas, with their ... «NPR, Aug 12»
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Philip Larkin, Sentimentalist?
Once in a great while, I write something that's too long to fit comfortably in a blog post. This week one of those pieces, an essay on the notorious and beloved ... «Big Think, Feb 12»

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