sentimental

[Fr.; Sp. sentimental; Ital. sentiment ale.] †1. Having or containing sentiment; abounding with sentiments or reflections; sententious; promoting thought. "Each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet spoke." Whitehead: Prol. to Roman Father. 2. Liable to be moved or swayed by sentiment; given to sentiment or sensibility; affecting sentiment or sensibility; indulging in an artificial or affected tenderne . 3. Exciting sensibility; appealing to sentiment or feeling rather than to reason. "Perhaps there is no le danger in works called senti mental."-Knox: E ay 171. sent-1-ment-al-ism, subst . [Eng.sentimental; -ism.] The quality or state of being sentimental; exce of sensibility; affectation of sentiment or sensibility; sentimentality.