sentimentality

English

Etymology

From sentimental +‎ -ity.

Noun

sentimentality (plural sentimentalities)

1. An act or state of being sentimental.
   • 2021 July 29, Mike Hale, “Review: ‘The Pursuit of Love’ Against All Odds”, in The New York Times‎:

     Things that were implicit and largely unjudged in the book, filtered through layers of stiff-upper-lip irony — Fanny’s self-pity, Linda’s obliviousness — are now foregrounded and, for the most part, rendered banal, with “Beaches”-level platitudes and sentimentality.

Translations

act of being sentimental

Bulgarian: сантименталност (bg) f (santimentalnost) Catalan: sentimentalitat f Esperanto: sentimentaleco French: sentimentalité (fr) f, (pejorative) sensiblerie (fr) f German: Sentimentalität (de) f, (colloquial) Schmalz (de) m, Empfindsamkeit (de) f, Gefühlsseligkeit (de) f, Rührseligkeit (de) f Hindi: भावुकता (bhāvuktā) Hungarian: érzelgősség (hu), szentimentalitás Polish: sentyment (pl) m, sentymentalność (pl) f, uczuciowość (pl) f Romanian: sentimentalitate (ro) Russian: сентимента́льность (ru) f (sentimentálʹnostʹ) Spanish: sentimentalidad f Turkish: duygusallık (tr), santimantalite (tr)