sentimentalism
41languros — LANGURÓS, OÁSĂ, languroşi, oase, adj. (Adesea peior. sau ir.; şi adverbial) Plin de sentimentalism; galeş, sentimental. – Din fr. langoureux. Trimis de LauraGellner, 17.05.2004. Sursa: DEX 98 LANGURÓS adj. 1. v. sentimental. 2. v. drăgă …
42sentimentalitate — SENTIMENTALITÁTE s.f. Caracter, fel de a fi al unei persoane sentimentale; predispoziţie spre exagerarea sentimentelor. ♦ Reacţie afectivă specifică a cuiva faţă de realităţile vieţii. – Din fr. sentimentalité. Trimis de LauraGellner, 21.07.2004 …
43mush — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. porridge, pottage, oatmeal, cereal; pap, sop, corn (sl.); informal, sentimentality, emotionalism, romance. See feeling, softness, food. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Boiled meal] Syn. Indian meal, hasty… …
44sentimentality — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. sentimentalism, sentiment, melodramatics, bathos, melodrama, maudlinness, triteness, mawkishness, emotionalness, mushiness*, gushiness*; see also emotion , romance 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. mawkishness, *mush,… …
45Sensibility — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Sensibility >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 sensibility sensibility sensibleness sensitiveness Sgm: N 1 moral sensibility moral sensibility Sgm: N 1 impressibility impressibility affectibility Sgm: N 1 susceptibleness… …
46schmalz — noun (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music • Syn: ↑schmaltz, ↑shmaltz • Topics: ↑Yiddish • Hypernyms: ↑mawkishness, ↑sentimentality, ↑ …
47Virtuosity — Vir tu*os i*ty, n. 1. The quality or state of being a virtuoso; in a bad sense, the character of one in whom mere artistic feeling or [ae]sthetic cultivation takes the place of religious character; sentimentalism. [1913 Webster] This famous… …
48bathos — noun Etymology: Greek, literally, depth Date: 1727 1. a. the sudden appearance of the commonplace in otherwise elevated matter or style b. anticlimax 2. exceptional commonplaceness …
49dry-eyed — adjective Date: 1667 1. not moved to tears or to empathy 2. marked by the absence of sentimentalism or romanticism …
50sloppy — adjective (sloppier; est) Date: 1672 1. a. wet so as to spatter easily ; slushy < a sloppy racetrack > b. wet or smeared with or as if with something slopped over 2. slovenly, careless < a sloppy dresser > …
