Associations to the word «Sentimentality»

Wiktionary

SENTIMENTALITY, noun. An act of being sentimental.

Dictionary definition

SENTIMENTALITY, noun. Falsely emotional in a maudlin way.
SENTIMENTALITY, noun. Extravagant or affected feeling or emotion.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne