sentimentalists
Those valuing feelings
Sentimentalists are people who indulge in or value sentiment—especially excessive or superficial emotion.
The word usually carries a dismissive tone, suggesting someone prioritizes feeling over reason or practicality: The sentimentalists wept over the old building's demolition while the pragmatists planned the new hospital.
In philosophy and aesthetics, sentimentalists hold that moral judgments derive from emotion rather than reason.
Readily feeling sympathy
- softheartedReadily feeling sympathy
- weepyInclined to cry
- maudlinExcessively tearful sentiment
- tearfulProne to weeping
sappy · overwrought · melodramatic · gushing · effusive · lachrymose · bleeding-heart · mushy
Devotee of emotion-driven art
- idealistPursuer of noble principles
- visionaryImaginative planner of futures
- utopianImpractically perfect in conception
- fantasistCreator of fictions
daydreamer · quixotic · starry-eyed · rose-colored · impractical · naive · head-in-clouds · moony
Sadly longing for something
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- backward-lookingOriented toward the past
- reminiscingEnjoyably recalling the past
- piningAching with prolonged desire
homesick · longing · sepia-toned · halcyon · traditionalist · antiquarian · memorialist · collector
Unhappy due to unreturned affection
- lovesickPining from romantic longing
- mooningBaring one's buttocks
- swooningLosing consciousness briefly
- infatuatedConsumed by shallow ardor
starry-eyed · devoted · ardent · passionate · amorous · besotted · enamored · pining
tenderhearted
Readily feeling sympathy
- softheartedReadily feeling sympathy
- weepyInclined to cry
- maudlinExcessively tearful sentiment
tearful · sappy · overwrought · melodramatic · gushing · effusive · lachrymose · bleeding-heart · mushy · schmaltzy
romanticist
Devotee of emotion-driven art
- idealistPursuer of noble principles
- visionaryImaginative planner of futures
- utopianImpractically perfect in conception
fantasist · daydreamer · quixotic · starry-eyed · rose-colored · impractical · naive · head-in-clouds · moony · fanciful
wistful
Sadly longing for something
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- backward-lookingOriented toward the past
- reminiscingEnjoyably recalling the past
pining · homesick · longing · sepia-toned · halcyon · traditionalist · antiquarian · memorialist · collector · preservationist
lovelorn
Unhappy due to unreturned affection
- lovesickPining from romantic longing
- mooningBaring one's buttocks
- swooningLosing consciousness briefly
infatuated · starry-eyed · devoted · ardent · passionate · amorous · besotted · enamored · pining · heartsick
- loverslover, lovers, beloved, sweethearts, sweetheart
- dreamersdreamer, dreamers, daydreamer, daydreamers, visionary
sentimentalistscynics
Doubters of sincerity
stoics · cold fish · realists · hardliners · hardheads
sentimentalistsrationalists
Advocates of reasoned thinking
pragmatists · empiricists · logicians · realists · utilitarians
sentimentalistsminimalists
Advocates of deliberate simplicity
brutalists · realists · formalists · intellectualists · naturalists