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The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.
John Barton

Meaning of "sentimentality" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SENTIMENTALITY

sentimentality  [ˌsɛntɪmɛnˈtælɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SENTIMENTALITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sentimentality 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 SENTIMENTALITY 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 sentimentality in the English dictionary

The definition of sentimentality in the dictionary is the state, quality, or an instance of being sentimental. Other definition of sentimentality is an act, statement, etc, that is sentimental.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SENTIMENTALITY


accidentality
ˌæksɪdɛnˈtælɪtɪ
brutality
bruːˈtælɪtɪ
fatality
fəˈtælɪtɪ
fractality
frækˈtælɪtɪ
frontality
frənˈtælɪtɪ
fundamentality
ˌfʌndəmɛnˈtælɪtɪ
horizontality
ˌhɒrɪzɒnˈtælɪtɪ
hospitality
ˌhɒspɪˈtælɪtɪ
immortality
ˌɪmɔːˈtælɪtɪ
inhospitality
ˌɪnhɒspɪˈtælɪtɪ
instrumentality
ˌɪnstrəmenˈtælɪtɪ
mentality
mɛnˈtælɪtɪ
monumentality
ˌmɒnjʊˌmɛnˈtælɪtɪ
mortality
mɔːˈtælɪtɪ
natality
neɪˈtælɪtɪ
rectipetality
ˌrɛktɪpɪˈtælɪtɪ
sacramentality
ˌsækrəmɛnˈtælɪtɪ
totality
təʊˈtælɪtɪ
transcendentality
ˌtrænsenˌdenˈtælɪtɪ
vitality
vaɪˈtælɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SENTIMENTALITY

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE SENTIMENTALITY

ability
air quality
augmented reality
confidentiality
equality
functionality
homosexuality
in reality
inequality
locality
low-quality
morality
municipality
nationality
originality
personality
quality
reality
sexuality
speciality
spirituality

Synonyms and antonyms of sentimentality in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SENTIMENTALITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «sentimentality» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of sentimentality

Translation of «sentimentality» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SENTIMENTALITY

Find out the translation of sentimentality to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sentimentality from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sentimentality» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

多愁善感
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sentimentalismo
570 millions of speakers

English

sentimentality
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भावुकता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عاطفة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сентиментальность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sentimentalismo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভাবপ্রবণতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sentimentalité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sentimentaliti
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sentimentalität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

感傷的なこと
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

감상
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sentimen
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhiều tình cam
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மனோபாவங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भावनाशून्यता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

aşırı duygusallık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sentimentalità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sentymentalizm
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сентиментальність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sentimentalism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συναισθηματισμό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sentimentaliteit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sentimentalitet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sentimentalitet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sentimentality

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SENTIMENTALITY»

The term «sentimentality» is regularly used and occupies the 79.796 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SENTIMENTALITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sentimentality» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sentimentality» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «SENTIMENTALITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sentimentality.
1
James Baldwin
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
2
John Barton
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.
3
Simon Beaufoy
India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.
4
Max Beckmann
There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
5
Max Beckmann
I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
6
Lionel Blue
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.
7
Robert Boswell
You have to avoid caricature, at the one end of the spectrum, and sentimentality, at the other; which is not to say that such characters shouldn't be funny part of the time, or that their actions shouldn't evoke genuine feeling.
8
William S. Burroughs
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
9
Leonora Carrington
Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.
10
Cameron Crowe
I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SENTIMENTALITY»

Discover the use of sentimentality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sentimentality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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In Defense of Sentimentality
In this, the second book in a series devoted to his work on the emotions, Robert Solomon presents a defense of the emotions and of sentimentality against the background of what he perceives as a long history of abuse in philosophy and ...
Austin Robert C. Solomon Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Philosophy University of Texas, 2004
2
Spoilt Rotten
In this perceptive and witty book, Theodore Dalrymple unmasks the hidden sentimentality that is suffocating public life.
Theodore Dalrymple, 2011
3
Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in ...
She maintains that the reactionary reassertion of male sentimentality as a political duty displaced customary gender roles, rendering women, in Wollstonecraft's words, "equivocal beings."
Claudia L. Johnson, 2009
4
Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American ...
Cassuto offers an unconventional interpretation of American literature's most "masculine" genre, the American crime story, arguing that its origins can be traced, paradoxically, to nineteenth-century sentimental narratives which were almost ...
Leonard Cassuto, 2013
5
The Sentimentality of the Valley of Tea-Stories from Malaysia
The cultural potpourri in the tales comprises a blend of characters, with roots belonging to major Asian ancient civilizations; the South Indian and Chinese cultures are fused with the local Malay community.
V. S. Kalah, 2011
6
Woeful Afflictions: Disability and Sentimentality in ...
Woeful Afflictions offers a detailed historical analysis of the types of cultural work performed by sentimental representations of disability in general, and blindness in particular, in public reports and lectures, exhibitions, novels, ...
Mary Klages, 1999
7
Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality
A both witty and lacerating criticism of our sentimentality-centric culture by cultural commentator and former prison doctor Theodore Dalrymple.
Theodore Dalrymple, 2010
8
The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of ...
In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural “intimate public” in the United States, a “women’s culture” distinguished by a view that women inevitably have something in common and are in ...
Lauren Berlant, 2008
9
In defense of sentimentality
In this, the second book in a series devoted to his work on the emotions, Robert Solomon presents a defense of the emotions and of sentimentality against the background of what he perceives as a long history of abuse in philosophy and ...
Robert C. Solomon, 2004
10
Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in ...
Homespun Gospel offers a compelling perspective on an unexplored but vital aspect of American evangelical identity.
Todd M. Brenneman, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SENTIMENTALITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sentimentality is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Opinion: The worth of our sentimentality
The purchase of our first home included with it a vintage refrigerator nearly original to the 70-year-old residence. We lovingly referred to it as the DeSoto for its ... «Carmel in Westfield, Jul 15»
2
No Sentimentality, or Hits, From Robinson Cano in Return as Alex …
The Red Sox have rarely been driven by such sentimentality. They let Pedro Martinez walk just after he had helped end their 86-year World Series title drought ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
3
Approaching Homosexuality With 'True Compassion,' Not …
In the opening paragraphs of his last encyclical, the pope emeritus makes a distinction between “sentimentality” and “compassion.” He indicates that the former ... «National Catholic Register, May 15»
4
Aloha: Hawaiian love story brings out Cameron Crowe's sloppy …
... his characters has devolved into sloppy sentimentality. Aloha is a marshmallow of a film: soft on the inside, soft on the outside and wholly devoid of substance. «The Globe and Mail, May 15»
5
Mother's Day ads drop sentimentality for edginess
On Mother's Day, most of us like to get all sentimental about our moms. But some marketers have started taking an edgier approach to acknowledge the holiday. «CBC.ca, May 15»
6
Michael O'Leary: Aer Lingus sentimentality is 'rubbish'
Sentimentality about Aer Lingus as a national brand is “largely rubbish”, according to Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary. In a pre-recorded interview with ... «Irish Times, Apr 15»
7
Why the death of sentimentality in journalism is a very good thing
Washington Post editor Marty Baron gave a speech this week at the University of California, Riverside entitled: "Journalism's Big Move: What to Discard, Keep, ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»
8
Cinderella review – straight-faced sentimentality
Lily James as Cinders with Richard Madden as the Prince in Kenneth Branagh's 'anti-revisionist' Cinderella. Photograph: Walt Disney Co/Everett/REX. «The Guardian, Mar 15»
9
How to end the housing crisis: forget sentimentality and build on the …
“I am sentimental about beautiful parts of this country,” thundered Nigel Farage. “Building on brownfield and turning bad into good is better than turning good into ... «The Independent, Mar 15»
10
Canberra Raiders prop Dane Tilse picks success over sentimentality
Canberra Raiders prop Dane Tilse picks success over sentimentality ... 200th NRL game last Sunday, declaring there's no room for sentimentality if Canberra is ... «The Canberra Times, Mar 15»

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