noun
Meaning 1
An act or state of being sentimental.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sentimentality
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
Synonym of Empfindsamkeit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, uncountable
Topics: art, arts, entertainment, lifestyle, music
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Empfindsamkeit
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
falsely emotional in a maudlin way
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mawkishness, drippiness, mushiness, soupiness, sloppiness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: emotionality, emotionalism
Narrower terms: corn, schmaltz, shmaltz, schmalz, sentimentalism
noun
Meaning 4
extravagant or affected feeling or emotion
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sentiment
Narrower terms: mawkishness, bathos
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Latin sentimentumder. Old French sentementder. English sentiment English -al English sentimental Proto-Indo-European *-teh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh2ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English sentimentality From sentimental + -ity. The music sense is a calque of German Empfindsamkeit.
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: сантименталност (santimentalnost) — act of being sentimental
- Catalan: sentimentalitat — act of being sentimental
- Esperanto: sentimentaleco — act of being sentimental
- French: sentimentalité — act of being sentimental
- French: sensiblerie — act of being sentimental
- German: Sentimentalität — act of being sentimental
- German: Schmalz — act of being sentimental
- German: Empfindsamkeit — act of being sentimental
- German: Gefühlsseligkeit — act of being sentimental
- German: Rührseligkeit — act of being sentimental
- Hindi: भावुकता (bhāvuktā) — act of being sentimental
- Hungarian: érzelgősség — act of being sentimental
- Hungarian: szentimentalitás — act of being sentimental
- Polish: sentyment — act of being sentimental
- Polish: sentymentalność — act of being sentimental
- Polish: uczuciowość — act of being sentimental
- Romanian: sentimentalitate — act of being sentimental
- Russian: сентимента́льность (sentimentálʹnostʹ) — act of being sentimental
- Slovak: sentimentalita — act of being sentimental
- Spanish: sentimentalidad — act of being sentimental
- Turkish: duygusallık — act of being sentimental
- Turkish: santimantalite — act of being sentimental
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