Pity
Pity noun - A regrettable or blameworthy act.
Sentimentality and pity are semantically related in sentiment topic. In some cases you can use "Sentimentality" instead a noun "Pity".
Sentimentality
Sentimentality noun - The state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion).
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Synonyms for Sentimentality
Pity and sentimentality are semantically related in sentiment topic. Sometimes you can use "Pity" instead a noun "Sentimentality".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- love and pity
- love and sentimentality
- feeling and pity
- feeling and sentimentality
- affection and pity
- affection and sentimentality
- tenderness and pity
- tenderness and sentimentality
- warmth and pity
- warmth and sentimentality
- understanding and pity
- understanding and sentimentality
- pathos and pity
- pathos and sentimentality
How words are described
| useless | useless pity | useless sentimentality |
| uncharacteristic | uncharacteristic pity | uncharacteristic sentimentality |
Both words in one sentence
- His poems often contained soaring emotions involving life and death, but never achieved the cloying sentimentality and self-pity of other poets.
Source: Creator / Philip Larkin
Cite this Source
Sentimentality and Pity. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/pity/sentimentality
Pity & Sentimentality. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/pity/sentimentality>.
Sentimentality or Pity. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/pity/sentimentality.
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