Sentimental vs Maudlin - What's the difference?
sentimental | maudlin |
characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion
derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment
romantic
(obsolete, Christianity) The Magdalene; (Mary Magdalene).
* c. 1400 , (trans.), The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ :
* 1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged , Folio Society 2007, p. 186:
(obsolete) A Magdalene house; a brothel.
Affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness.
*around 1900 , O. Henry,
Extravagantly or excessively sentimental; mawkish, self-pitying.
*1961 ,
(obsolete) Tearful, lachrymose.
As adjectives the difference between sentimental and maudlin
is that sentimental is characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion while maudlin is affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness.As a noun maudlin is
the Magdalene; Mary Magdalene.sentimental
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* sentimentalism * sentimentality * sentimentallyQuotations
* 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.Anagrams
* ----maudlin
English
Noun
(en noun)- for alle they wor?chipden hir ?ouereynly / as worthy was / but ?pecially Mawdelayne / that wolde neuere departe fro hir.
- Common Maudlin have somewhat long and narrow leaves, snipped about the edges.
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was a drunkard, and had not known it. What he had fondly imagined was a pleasant exhilaration had been maudlin intoxication.
- ''On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos. Maudlin tears. I almost prefer the moments of agony. These are at least clean and honest. But the bath of self-pity, the wallow, the loathsome sticky-sweet pleasure of indulging it — that disgusts me.
