sentimentalism
- n the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form
- n a predilection for sentimentality
- Without falling into sentimentalism we had our work to do we developed relationships and made friends.
- It had degenerated into a superficial sentimentalism, dominated "by wishes which were taken for facts" and by "the widespread conviction .
- The Big Game was again something to anticipate, prepare for, and seein a slight haze induced by sentimentalism, alcohol, and the sight of thousands of chrysanthemums on fur .