Nostalgic vs. Sentimental
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Difference Between Nostalgic and Sentimental
Nostalgicadjective
Of, having, or relating to nostalgia.
Sentimentaladjective
Characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion.
Nostalgicadjective
Reminiscent of the speaker's childhood or younger years.
Sentimentaladjective
Derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment.
Nostalgicnoun
A person who displays nostalgia for something.
Sentimentaladjective
Romantic.
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Nostalgicadjective
unhappy at being away and longing for familiar things or persons
Sentimentaladjective
given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality
Sentimentaladjective
effusively or insincerely emotional;
a bathetic novelmaudlin expressons of sympathymushy effusivenessa schmaltzy songsentimental soap operasslushy poetry
