sentimentality
pronunciation
How to pronounce sentimentality in British English:
UK [ˌsentɪmenˈtæləti]
How to pronounce sentimentality in American English:
US [ˌsɛntəmɛnˈtælɪti]
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- Noun:
- falsely emotional in a maudlin way
- extravagant or affected feeling or emotion
Word Origin
- sentimentality (n.)
- 1768, from sentimental + -ity.
Example
- 1. Such devotion was not built on sentimentality .
- 2. He had a child 's lack of sentimentality and took a child 's delight in the foul and the scatological .
- 3. Since then he has run it with a stark lack of sentimentality and with outrageous success .
- 4. Another chief text of manhattan sentimentality is " yes , virginia " .
- 5. He had been trained as a guy to be self-contained and smart and rational and to avoid sentimentality .