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Sentimental

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sen⋅ti⋅men⋅tal

  [sen-tuh-men-tl]
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–adjective
1. expressive of or appealing to sentiment, esp. the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
2. pertaining to or dependent on sentiment: We kept the old photograph for purely sentimental reasons.
3. weakly emotional; mawkishly susceptible or tender: the sentimental Victorians.
4. characterized by or showing sentiment or refined feeling.
Origin:
1740–50; sentiment + -al 1

Related forms:
sen⋅ti⋅men⋅tal⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. romantic, tender, nostalgic; maudlin, bathetic.

Antonyms:
1, 4. dispassionate.
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sen·ti·men·tal   (sěn'tə-měn'tl)   
adj.  

    1. Characterized or swayed by sentiment.

    2. Affectedly or extravagantly emotional.

  2. Resulting from or colored by emotion rather than reason or realism.

  3. Appealing to the sentiments, especially to romantic feelings: sentimental music.

sen'ti·men'tal·ly adv.
Synonyms: These adjectives mean overly or insincerely emotional: a sentimental card; a bathetic novel; maudlin words of sympathy; mawkish sentiment; mushy effusiveness; a romantic adolescent; a schmaltzy song.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

sentimental 
1749, "pertaining to or characterized by sentiment," from sentiment (q.v.). At first without pejorative connotations; meaning "having too much sentiment" had emerged by 1793 (sentimentalist).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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