SENTIMENTAL  

TEND to DELIGHT in one's SELF:own FEELINGS, AND OFTEN HAVE INTENSIVE FEELING ABOUT something COMMON AND UNDERSTOOD.
ROMANTICMAWKISHOVEREMOTIONALCLOYINGSICKLYSACCHARINESUGARYOVERSWEETROMANTICTOUCHINGINFORMAL SLUSHYMUSHYWEEPYTEAR-JERKINGSCHMALTZYLOVEY-DOVEYGOOEYDRIPPYCHEESYCORNYCORNBALLSAPPYHOKEY. ANTONYM REALISTICGRITTY
Hypernym
  • FEELINGNATURAL REACTION IN one's MIND.
    • REACTCHANGE one's THINKING OR ACTING BECAUSE one is PERCEIVING something.
      • CHANGEEVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2.
        • EVENTREALITY that ARISES in TIME....
See also
  • TENDERINTIMATE so as to SHOW LOVE USING MUTUAL TOUCHING.
    Modern Chinese Criteria
    We need to investigate exactly when concepts of this order arose in China.

    In Modern Chinese, comparison between 修訂現代漢語詞典 and DeFrancis, ABC Dictionary. The picture here is the same as in a large number of other such sensitive cases:

    善感 refers both to sensitivity and sentimentality. 容易引起感觸

    傷感 refers to sadness, distress as well as sentimentality. 因感觸而悲傷

    溫情 refers to warm-heartedness as well as sentimentality. 溫柔的感情

    Lin Yutang defines

    兒女態 as "childishness; sentimentality; lack of manliness"

    多情 as "affectionate; also sentimental" 重感情（多指愛情）

    rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

    • Vocabulaire européen des philosophies. Dictionnaire des intraduisibles ( CASSIN 2004) p.

    • Vocabulaire européen des philosophies. Dictionnaire des intraduisibles ( CASSIN 2004) p. 35

      ROMANTIQUE

    • Deutsche Synonymik ( EBERHARD 1853) p. 291

      Empfindlichkeit, Empfindsamkeit, Empfindelei, Gefuehl.

    • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 9.679

      SENTIMENTAL

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