Sentimentality is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SENTIMENTALITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being sentimental esp. to excess or in affectation
• exaggerated and self-indulgent tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia
• the state of being sentimental especially to excess or in affectation
• The quality or state of being sentimental.
• falsely emotional in a maudlin way
• extravagant or affected feeling or emotion
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being sentimental especially to excess or in affectation

How to use SENTIMENTALITY in a sentence

• Which exhibition of sentimentality had both startled and touched Hilda.
• Nor had she the smallest beginning of a tender sentimentality about the fair-haired young man.
• He said he might be able to understand it if she had the means to prevent it, but as the case stood it was mere sentimentality.
• Sentimentality of a most extraordinary kind is also found in the attitude of sons toward parents.
• She knew the shoals of morbid sentimentality which skirt the deeps of trouble, and sought to pilot the sorrowing past the shoals to the shore.
• The whole of the blessed show here is being ruined with this sickly sentimentality.
• It sprang from the similarity of tastes, and the frank, straightforward manner which marked their intercourse denied the existence of any foolish sentimentality.
• Hugh could never pass Surrey Hall without feeling something deeper than sentimentality.
• That kind of remark is sheer sentimentality and muddle-headedness.
• What pleases people most is sentimental music, but it need not be a silly sentimentality.
• The coarse sentimentality of the lower classes has been noted, but it is not confined to them.
• This leprosy of sentimentality would have been charming.
• Harsh critics call this quality sentiment, and even sentimentality.
• But in the rapid telling of a story or description of a scene, perhaps no fault is so surely fatal as a momentary lapse into meaningless fine phrases, or sentimentality.
• She has no sentimentality, but much wit and common sense.
• And this is no matter of sentimentality, which I am to parade before mass meetings or before my constituents at home.
• Bab hated sentimentality and secrecy more than anything in the world.
• It is not a piece of pure sentimentality that sees in Prospero a type of Shakspere in his final stage of thought.
• Bit by bit, playing upon masculine stupidity, sentimentality and lack of strategical sense, they have formulated it, developed it, and entrenched it in custom and law.
• She had a weakness for Rousseau, but was not deluded by his sentimentality.
• She had been necessary, and he would be a fool to pause over a bit of sentimentality.