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Sentimentality

Sentimentality originally indicated the reliance on feelings as a guide to truth, but in current usage the term commonly connotes a reliance on shallow, uncomplicated emotions at the expense of reason.

Modern times, 18th-century origins & Sentimental fallacy

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18th-century origins

Modern times

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Sentimental fallacy

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Sentimentality

Nodes55
Edges54
Triples157
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.036364
Components1

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related to References · 102
Sentimentality → Aesthetic Process, Alvarez, American Culture, American Literature, Anderson, Bendixen, Berlant, Booth, Boston, Brian, Brief Literary Criticisms, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Charles Dickens, Chris, Ciardi, College English, Continuum, Cupchik, De Profundis
related to Further reading · 23
Sentimentality → Dalrymple, Dictionary, History, Ideas, In Defence, In Wiener, ISBN, Jamison, July, Leslie, Madden, Philip, Poisoning Our Society, Retrieved, Robert, Scribner, Sentiment, Solomon, The Empathy Exams, The Telegraph
related to 18th-century origins · 18
Sentimentality → Adam Smith, By, Enlightenment, European, Everything, Everywhere, Greek, In, Maurivaux, Moral, Racine, Riccoboni, Richardson, Schiller, Stoics, Voltaire, What, Zeno
related to Dissensions · 8
Sentimentality → Charles Dickens' The Old, Complications, Curiosity Shop, Dickens, John Ciardi's, Little Nell, Richard Holt Hutton, The
related to Modern times · 4
Sentimentality → In, Meretricious, The, William James
is a · 2
Sentimentality → hardy perennial, superstructure erected upon brutality

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sentimental term emotions also social new literature one emotion however example john press york cambridge view emotional considered sentimentalism romantic

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Sentimentalityis ahardy perennial0.90text
Sentimentalityis asuperstructure erected upon brutality0.90text
Sentimentalityrelated to 18th-century originsIn0.60section
Sentimentalityrelated to 18th-century originsRichardson0.60section
Sentimentalityrelated to 18th-century originsWhat0.60section
Sentimentalityrelated to 18th-century originsEverything0.60section
Sentimentalityrelated to 18th-century originsEuropean0.60section
Sentimentalityrelated to 18th-century originsEnlightenment0.60section
Sentimentalityrelated to 18th-century originsEverywhere0.60section
Sentimentalityrelated to 18th-century originsMoral0.60section
Sentimentalityrelated to 18th-century originsAdam Smith0.60section
Sentimentalityrelated to 18th-century originsRacine0.60section

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