sentimentalist

• Personne encline à des manifestations excessives de tendresse, de tristesse ou de nostalgie, souvent de manière exagérée ou complaisante.

A person who is prone to or indulges in excessive feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia, often in an exaggerated or self-indulgent way.

1. Person prone to sentimentalityC1formal

   An individual who tends to be excessively emotional, nostalgic, or tender-hearted, often valuing feelings over logic.

   Personne sentimentale

   • He's a sentimentalist who keeps every childhood toy.
   • As a sentimentalist, she cries at every happy ending in movies.
   • The old man was a sentimentalist, always reminiscing about the past.

   Synonymesbleeding heartmushromanticsoftie

   Antonymescynicpragmatistrationalistrealist