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sentimental


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sentimental  \Sen`ti*men"tal\,  a.  [Cf.  F.  sentimental.] 
  1.  Having  expressing,  or  containing  a  sentiment  or 
  sentiments;  abounding  with  moral  reflections;  containing  a 
  moral  reflection;  didactic.  [Obsoles.] 
 
  Nay,  ev'n  each  moral  sentimental  stroke,  Where  not 
  the  character,  but  poet,  spoke,  He  lopped,  as 
  foreign  to  his  chaste  design,  Nor  spared  a  useless, 
  though  a  golden  line  --Whitehead. 
 
  2.  Inclined  to  sentiment;  having  an  excess  of  sentiment  or 
  sensibility;  indulging  the  sensibilities  for  their  own 
  sake;  artificially  or  affectedly  tender;  --  often  in  a 
  reproachful  sense 
 
  A  sentimental  mind  is  rather  prone  to  overwrought 
  feeling  and  exaggerated  tenderness.  --Whately. 
 
  3.  Addressed  or  pleasing  to  the  emotions  only,  usually  to  the 
  weaker  and  the  unregulated  emotions. 
 
  Syn:  Romantic. 
 
  Usage:  {Sentimental},  {Romantic}.  Sentimental  usually 
  describes  an  error  or  excess  of  the  sensibilities; 
  romantic,  a  vice  of  the  imagination.  The  votary  of  the 
  former  gives  indulgence  to  his  sensibilities  for  the 
  mere  luxury  of  their  excitement;  the  votary  of  the 
  latter  allows  his  imagination  to  rove  for  the  pleasure 
  of  creating  scenes  of  ideal  enjoiment.  ``Perhaps  there 
  is  no  less  danger  in  works  called  sentimental.  They 
  attack  the  heart  more  successfully,  because  more 
  cautiously.''  --V.  Knox.  ``I  can  not  but  look  on  an 
  indifferency  of  mind,  as  to  the  good  or  evil  things  of 
  this  life,  as  a  mere  romantic  fancy  of  such  who  would 
  be  thought  to  be  much  wiser  than  they  ever  were  or 
  could  be.''  --Bp.  Stillingfleet 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sentimental 
  adj  1:  given  to  or  marked  by  sentiment  or  sentimentality 
  2:  effusively  or  insincerely  emotional;  "a  bathetic  novel"; 
  "maudlin  expressons  of  sympathy";  "mushy  effusiveness";  "a 
  schmaltzy  song";  "sentimental  soap  operas";  "slushy 
  poetry"  [syn:  {bathetic},  {maudlin},  {mawkish},  {mushy},  {schmaltzy}, 
  {schmalzy},  {slushy}] 




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