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Noun: sentimentality  `sentumen'talitee
  1. Falsely emotional in a maudlin way
    - mawkishness, drippiness, mushiness, soupiness, sloppiness
     
  2. Extravagant or affected feeling or emotion
    - soppiness

Derived forms: sentimentalities

See also: sentimental

Type of: emotionalism, emotionality, sentiment

Encyclopedia: Sentimentality

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