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- Dictionarysentimentalism/sɛntɪˈmɛntəlɪz(ə)m/
noun
- 1. excessively sentimental behaviour, writing, or speech: "the author blends realism with surrealism, journalism with sentimentalism"
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- Sentimentalism (literature)
Literary movement
As a literary mode, sentimentalism, the practice of being sentimental, and thus tending towards making emotions and feelings the basis of a person's actions and reactions, as opposed to reason, has been a recurring aspect of world literature. Sentimentalism includes a variety of aspects in literature, such as sentimental poetry, the sentimental novel, and the German sentimentalist music movement, ... Wikipedia
