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Noun Concept
Categories: Emotions, History of ideas, Articles with short description, Rhetoric
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mawkishness  sentimentality  drippiness  mushiness  soupiness
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Falsely emotional in a maudlin way WordNet 3.0
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Falsely emotional in a maudlin way WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Sentimentality originally indicated the reliance on feelings as a guide to truth, but in current usage the term commonly connotes a reliance on shallow, uncomplicated emotions at the expense of reason. Wikipedia
An appeal to shallow, uncomplicated emotions at the expense of reason Wikipedia Disambiguation
Appeal to shallow, uncomplicated emotions at the expense of reason Wikidata
IS A
emotionality
emotion
quality
HAS KIND
corn
schmaltz
sentimentalism
DERIVATION
bathetic
overemotional
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Otto's encyclopedia
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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mawkishness, sentimentality, drippiness, mushiness, soupiness, sloppiness
Wikipedia
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sentimentality
Wikidata
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sentimentality
Wikipedia Redirections
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Sentimental fallacy, sentimentalists, Sentimentally
Wikidata Alias
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sentimentalism

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