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Touchy vs Sentimental - What's the difference?

touchy | sentimental |

As adjectives the difference between touchy and sentimental

is that touchy is extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of becoming unstable; requiring caution or tactfulness while sentimental is characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion.

touchy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (of a situation) Extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of becoming unstable; requiring caution or tactfulness.
    • It is an extremely touchy situation, with everybody's patience wearing thin.
  • (of a person) Easily offended; oversensitive; ticklish.
    • He can be very touchy when you talk about his cat, so be as tactful as possible.

    Related terms

    * touchy-feely

    See also

    * tetchy * touch and go

    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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