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Webster 1913 Edition


Sentimentalist

Senˊti-men′tal-ist

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
sentimentaliste
.]
One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sentimentalist

SENTIMENT'ALIST

,
Noun.
One that affects sentiment, fine feeling or exquisite sensibility.

Definition 2024


sentimentalist

sentimentalist

English

Noun

sentimentalist (plural sentimentalists)

  1. A person who is sentimental.
    • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
      But Flay, for all his longing to return to his birthplace was no sentimentalist in exile. His thoughts when they turned to the castle were by no means in the nature of reveries.

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