Word Meanings - SENTIMENTALIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.

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• FEELINGLY
  In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
• SENTIMENTALLY
  In a sentimental manner.
• SENTIMENT
  fr. L. sentire to perceive by the senses and mind, to feel, to think. 1. A thought prompted by passion or feeling; a state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition prompting to action
• FEELER
  One of the sense organs or certain animals , which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. 3. Anything,
• SENTIMENTALIST
  One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.
• SENTIMENTALIZE
  To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject.
• FEELING
  1. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart. 2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
• SENTIMENTALITY
  The quality or state of being sentimental.
• SENTIMENTALISM
  The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.
• SENTIMENTAL
  1. Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic. Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet, spoke, He lopped, as foreign
• FEEL
  f; akin to OS. gif to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G. fühlen, Icel. falma to grope, and prob. to AS. folm paim of the hand, 1. To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over
• MISFEELING
  Insensate. Wyclif.
• RESENTIMENT
  Resentment.
• FELLOW-FEELING
  1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
• PRESENTIMENT
  Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding.
• PRESENTIMENTAL
  Of nature of a presentiment; foreboding. Coleridge.
• FELLOWFEEL
  To share through sympathy; to participate in. D. Rodgers.
• FOREFEEL
  To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of. As when, with unwieldy waves, the great sea forefeels winds. Chapman.
• UNFEELING
  1. Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate. 2. Without kind feelings; cruel; hard-hearted. To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Gray. --