sentimentalist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who is excessively influenced by tender, nostalgic, or idealized feelings

   He was no sentimentalist and judged the proposal by its practical effects.

2. 2
   noun

   an adherent or practitioner of sentimentalism in art, literature, or philosophy

   The critic described the novelist as a sentimentalist who placed feeling above reason.

From sentimental + -ist. Sentimental developed from sentiment, borrowed through French from Medieval Latin sentimentum, 'feeling or opinion.' The noun can be neutral for an adherent of sentimentalism or critical for someone ruled by excessive feeling.

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