Nostalgic vs. Sentimental — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Nostalgic and Sentimental
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Definitions
Nostalgic➦
A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past.
Sentimental➦
Having, showing, or caused by emotion, especially tender or affectionate feeling
I have sentimental ties to the small town I grew up in.
Nostalgic➦
The condition of being homesick; homesickness.
Sentimental➦
Having, showing, or caused by strong or extravagant tenderness or sadness, often in an idealized way
"He had no sentimental illusions about poverty's virtues" (Sherill Tippins).
Nostalgic➦
Of, having, or relating to nostalgia.
Sentimental➦
Characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion.
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Nostalgic➦
A person who displays nostalgia for something.
Sentimental➦
Derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment.
Nostalgic➦
Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.
Sentimental➦
Romantic.
Nostalgic➦
Unhappy at being away and longing for familiar things or persons
Sentimental➦
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 to his chaste design,Nor spared a useless, though a golden line.
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Sentimental➦
Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; - often in a reproachful sense.
A sentimental mind is rather prone to overwrought feeling and exaggerated tenderness.
Sentimental➦
Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions.
Sentimental➦
Given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality
Sentimental➦
Effusively or insincerely emotional;
A bathetic novel
Maudlin expressons of sympathy
Mushy effusiveness
A schmaltzy song
Sentimental soap operas
Slushy poetry
