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Noun Concept
Categories: Literary genres, Age of Enlightenment, History of ideas, Aesthetics, Concepts in aesthetics
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sentimentalism  Maudlinism  Maudlinisms  Maudlinist  Maudlinistic
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A predilection for sentimentality WordNet 3.0
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literature
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A predilection for sentimentality WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Sentimentalism is a practice of being sentimental, and thus tending toward basing actions and reactions upon emotions and feelings, in preference to reason. Wikipedia
A form of literary discourse Wikipedia Disambiguation
Literary movement Wikidata
A view according to which morality is somehow grounded in moral sentiments or emotions. Wiktionary
IS A
mawkishness
literary movement
DERIVATION
sentimentalist
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
Concise Literary Encyclopedia
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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sentimentalism
Wikipedia
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sentimentalism (literature)
Wikidata
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Sentimentalism
Wiktionary
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sentimentalism
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Maudlinism, Maudlinisms, Maudlinist, Maudlinistic, Maudlinists, Maudlinly, Maudlinness, Sentimental literature

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