**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˌsɛn.təˈmɛn.təl.ɪst/
**IPA (UK):** /ˌsen.tɪˈmen.təl.ɪst/
**Frequency rank:** 63414

## Meanings
1. a person who is excessively influenced by tender, nostalgic, or idealized feelings
2. an adherent or practitioner of sentimentalism in art, literature, or philosophy

## Examples
- He was no sentimentalist and judged the proposal by its practical effects.
- The critic described the novelist as a sentimentalist who placed feeling above reason.

## Synonyms
- romantic
- romanticist
- idealist

## Antonyms
- realist
- pragmatist

## Derived Forms
- sentimentalistic

## Related Forms
- sentiment
- sentimental
- sentimentalism

## Etymology
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.

## Topics
- Describing People

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