sentimentalist

English

Etymology

sentimental + -ist

Noun

sentimentalist (plural sentimentalists)

  1. A person who is sentimental.
    • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
      But Flay, for all his longing to return to his birthplace was no sentimentalist in exile. His thoughts when they turned to the castle were by no means in the nature of reveries.

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