Pensive vs Sentimental - What's the difference?
pensive | sentimental |
Having the appearance of deep, often melancholic, thinking.
Looking thoughtful, especially from sadness.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 4.
characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion
derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment
romantic
As adjectives the difference between pensive and sentimental
is that pensive is having the appearance of deep, often melancholic, thinking while sentimental is characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion.pensive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce