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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
sentimentalism is a noun meaning "the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form
a predilection for sentimentality
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sentimentalism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.