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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sentimentality \Sen'ti*men*tal"i*ty\, noun [CF. F. sentimentalit['e].] The quality or state of being sentimental.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sentimentality
noun
1: falsely emotional in a maudlin way [syn: {mawkishness}, {drippiness}]
2: extravagant or affected feeling or emotion
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "sentimentality": affection, affectionateness, amativeness, amorousness, bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, corn, corniness, demonstrativeness, ecstasy, emotionalism, enchantment, goatishness, goo, gushiness, hearts-and-flowers, horniness, lovelornness, lovesickness, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, pathos, rapture, romanticism, sentiment, sentimentalism, sexiness, slop, sloppiness, slush, slushiness, soap opera, sob story, soppiness, stickiness, susceptibility, sweetness, sweetness and light, tackiness, tearfulness, tearjerker, tenderness, weepiness
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