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Rakesh Raushan Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Difference between words

What is the difference beween emotional and sentimental in terms of meaning and uses?
  

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Greetings, Rakesh. First and foremost, welcome to the community! The words in question share a common meaning, but the shades of this meaning are dissimilar.

  • Greetings, Rakesh.
  • First and foremost, welcome to the community!
  • The words in question share a common meaning, but the shades of this meaning are dissimilar.
  • Thus, sentimental implies feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia (sometimes in an exaggerated way, as in the second example) : She felt a sentimental attachment to the place creep over her.
  • He dislikes sentimental ballads.
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Greetings, Rakesh. First and foremost, welcome to the community!

The words in question share a common meaning, but the shades of this meaning are dissimilar. Thus, sentimental implies feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia (sometimes in an exaggerated way, as in the second example):

She felt a sentimental attachment to the place creep over her.

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