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Meanings of sentimentality in English

Catalan
sensibleria
Spanish
superficialidad

Falsely emotional in a maudlin way.

        sensibleria
        Russian
        сентиментальность
        Spanish
        sentimentalidad

        Appeal to shallow, uncomplicated emotions at the expense of reason.

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            Usage of sentimentality in English
            1
            My grandmother was not given to sentiment, and certainly not shtetl sentimentality.
            Running the books: the adventures of an accidental prison librar...
            2
            One might question a coda that teeters on the edge of sentimentality.
            Reuters
            3
            The next moment, the grave, shy countryman had smiled at his sentimentality.
            'Way Down East / A Romance of New England Life
            4
            She seemed displeased at being surprised in the very act of sentimentality.
            Monsieur de Camors — Volume 2
            5
            A beggar, by Jove, and all in consequence of my d-d sentimentality.
            Vanity Fair
            6
            Nor is there any mawkishness or cheap surface sentimentality in it all.
            Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
            7
            Burns and sentimentality coming across you and Frank Floodgate in the office.
            Selected English Letters (XV-XIX Centuries)
            8
            I half-yielded to the impulse of sentimentality and turned to him appealingly.
            The Plum Tree
            9
            There isn't a football manager around who picks on sentimentality, he said.
            The Guardian
            10
            Mr. Watling had the gift of expressing his feelings naturally, without sentimentality.
            A Far Country — Volume 2
            11
            A wide-spread sentimentality, curiously mixed of love and letters, enveloped the peninsula.
            Modern Italian Poets; Essays and Versions
            12
            He is a master of evoking personal memories with wit and sentimentality.
            Ebony
            13
            It is my duty to consider these points, and they override sentimentality.
            Springhaven: A Tale of the Great War
            14
            But their spiritual love never rose above empty sentimentality and hysterical rapture.
            The Evolution of Love
            15
            Examples of this form of sentimentality are more numerous than we think.
            Common Sense, How to Exercise It
            16
            Her parents complain about the sentimentality, and the commercialization of a myth.
            The new yorker
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            Sentimentality through the time
            Sentimentality across language varieties
            Ireland
            Common
            United Kingdom
            Common
            United States of America
            Less common