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Lachrymose vs Sentimental - What's the difference?

lachrymose | sentimental |

As adjectives the difference between lachrymose and sentimental

is that lachrymose is tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying while sentimental is characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion.

lachrymose

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tearful, sorrowful, sad, pertaining to tears, weeping, causing tears or crying.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1927 , author=Thornton Wilder , title=The Bridge of San Luis Rey , page=69 , passage=It is true that Limeans were given to interpolating trivial songs into the most exquisite comedies and some lachrymose effects into the austerest music; but at least they never submitted to the boredom of a misplaced veneration.}}

    Derived terms

    * lachrymatory * lachrymosely * lachrymosity * unlachrymose

    sentimental

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion
  • derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment
  • romantic

    • Derived terms

    * sentimentalism * sentimentality * sentimentally

    Quotations

    * 1885 : , *: Are you in sentimental mood? *: I'll sigh with you. * 1944 : , *: Gonna take a Sentimental Journey, *: Gonna set my heart at ease. *: Gonna make a Sentimental Journey, *: to renew old memories.

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