Sentimentalitas

Sentimentalitas awalnya mengindikasikan ketergantungan pada perasaan sebagai sebuah panduan untuk kebenaran, tetapi dalam penggunaan sekarang istilah tersebut umumnya mengkonotasikan sebuah ketergantungan pada emosi yang dangkal dan tidak rumit.

Referensi

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Bacaan tambahan

• Dalrymple, Theodore "Sentimentality is Poisoning Our Society" The Telegraph 17 July 2010
• Madden, William A (1973). "Victorian Sensibility and Sentiment". Dalam Wiener, Philip P. Dictionary of the History of Ideas. ISBN 0-684-13293-1. Diakses tanggal 2009-12-02. 
• Jamison, Leslie, The Empathy Exams (2014)
• Solomon, Robert C., In Defence of Sentimentality (2004)