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Sadness vs Sentimentality - What's the difference?

sadness | sentimentality |

As nouns the difference between sadness and sentimentality

is that sadness is the state or emotion of being sad while sentimentality is an act of being sentimental.

sadness

English

(wikipedia sadness)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
  • (countable) An event in one's life that causes sadness.
    • She has experienced many sadnesses in her forty years.

    Synonyms

    * (state of being sad) forlornness, melancholy * (event causing sadness) misfortune, woe

    sentimentality

    English

    Noun

    (sentimentalities)
  • An act of being sentimental.