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Webster 1913 Edition


Sentimentalism

Senˊti-men′tal-ism

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
sentimentalisme
.]
The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.

Definition 2024


sentimentalism

sentimentalism

English

Noun

sentimentalism (countable and uncountable, plural sentimentalisms)

  1. A liking for sentimental things
  2. An overly sentimental thing or condition; bathos or sentimentality
  3. (philosophy) A view according to which morality is somehow grounded in moral sentiments or emotions.

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