Anti-sentimental
expressive of or appealing to , especially the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia:
a sentimental song.
pertaining to or dependent on :
we kept the old photograph for purely sentimental reasons.
weakly emotional; mawkishly susceptible or tender:
the sentimental victorians.
characterized by or showing or refined feeling.
historical examples
yet he is modern, in the sense that he is intellectual and anti-sentimental, as compared with albeniz.
the london mercury, vol. i, nos. 1-6, november 1919 to april 1920 various
perhaps she had caught and unconsciously copied some of wellgood’s anti-sentimental att-tude.
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adjective
tending to indulge the emotions excessively
making a direct appeal to the emotions, esp to romantic feelings
relating to or characterized by sentiment
adj.
1749, “pertaining to or characterized by sentiment,” from sentiment + -al (1). at first without pejorative connotations; meaning “having too much sentiment, apt to be swayed by prejudice” had emerged by 1793 (implied in sentimentalist). related: sentimentally.
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