The excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form.

Roget 822: sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness; moral sensibility; impressibility, affectibility^†; susceptibleness, susceptibility, susceptivity^†; mobility; vivacity, vivaciousness; tenderness, softness; sentimental, sentimentality; sentimentalism.    excitability etc. 825; fastidiousness etc. 868; physical sensibility etc. 375.    sore point, sore place; where the shoe pinches.    ... show more

Roget 855: affectation; affectedness etc. adj.; acting a part etc. v.; pretense etc. (falsehood) 544, (ostentation) 882; boasting etc. 884.    charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity; pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism; teratology etc. (altiloquence) 577.    mannerism, simagree, grimace.    conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism.    stiffness, formality, buckram; prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism; mauvais honte, false shame.    affector, performer, actor; pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist; grimacier; lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule [Fr.], bas bleu [Fr.], blue stocking, poetaster; prig; charlatan etc. (deceiver) 548; petit maitre etc. (fop) 854; flatterer etc. 935; coquette, prude, puritan.    ... show more

A predilection for sentimentality.