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unsentimental

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sen⋅ti⋅men⋅tal

[sen-tuh-men-tl]
–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


sen⋅ti⋅men⋅tal⋅ly, adverb


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


1, 4. dispassionate.
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