See sentimentality in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Things that were implicit and largely unjudged in the book, filtered through layers of stiff-upper-lip irony — Fanny’s self-pity, Linda’s obliviousness — are now foregrounded and, for the most part, rendered banal, with “Beaches”-level platitudes and sentimentality.",
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"(countable) An act or state of being sentimental."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "santimentalnost",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сантименталност"
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "sentimentalitat"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"lang_code": "eo",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"word": "sentimentaleco"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sentimentalité"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"pejorative"
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"word": "sensiblerie"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Sentimentalität"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"masculine"
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"word": "Schmalz"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Empfindsamkeit"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Gefühlsseligkeit"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Rührseligkeit"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"lang_code": "hi",
"roman": "bhāvuktā",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"word": "भावुकता"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"word": "érzelgősség"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"word": "szentimentalitás"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sentyment"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "sentymentalność"
},
{
"code": "pl",
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"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "uczuciowość"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"word": "sentimentalitate"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "sentimentálʹnostʹ",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сентимента́льность"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "sentimentalidad"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"word": "duygusallık"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"sense": "act of being sentimental",
"word": "santimantalite"
}
],
"word": "sentimentality"
}
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