Sensibility vs Sentimentalism - What's the difference?
sensibility | sentimentalism |
The ability to sense, feel or perceive; especially to be sensitive to the feelings of another
(chiefly, in the plural) An acute awareness or feeling
A liking for sentimental things
An overly sentimental thing or condition; bathos or sentimentality
(philosophy) A view according to which morality is somehow grounded in moral sentiments or emotions.
As nouns the difference between sensibility and sentimentalism
is that sensibility is the ability to sense, feel or perceive; especially to be sensitive to the feelings of another while sentimentalism is a liking for sentimental things.sensibility
English
Noun
(sensibilities)- 'I think sensibility is important in a relationship.'
- 'I apologize if I offended your sensibilities, but that's the truth of the matter.'
