1. sentimentality(n = noun.attribute) drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sloppiness, soupiness - falsely emotional in a maudlin way;
is a kind of emotionalism, emotionality
has particulars: corn, schmaltz, schmalz, shmaltz, sentimentalism
Derived form adjective sentimental2
2. sentimentality(n = noun.feeling) - extravagant or affected feeling or emotion;
is a kind of sentiment
has particulars: bathos, mawkishness
Derived form adjective sentimental1
The quality or state of being sentimental. [1913 Webster]
N sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness, moral sensibility, impressibility, affectibility, susceptibleness, susceptibility, susceptivity, mobility, vivacity, vivaciousness, tenderness, softness, sentimental, sentimentality, sentimentalism, excitability, fastidiousness, physical sensibility, sore point, sore place, where the shoe pinches, sensible, sensitive, impressible, impressionable, susceptive, susceptible, alive to, impassionable, gushing, warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted, tender as a chicken, soft, sentimental, romantic, enthusiastic, highflying, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive, excitable, oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned, fastidious, sensibly, to the quick, to the inmost core, mens aequa in arduis, pour salt in the wound.