SENTIMENTAL

[adjective]If you are sentimental, you are strongly influenced by emotional feelings, esp. about happy memories of past events or relationships with other people, rather than by careful thought and judgment based on facts.Why be sentimental about that old coat? There's no point in keeping it just because you were wearing it when you first met me.He had no sentimental attachment to his working class roots.The film is the ultimate sentimental journey, a trip back to the days when the sun seemed to shine all the time and family quarrels were unknown.She kept the book for sentimental reasons.It's a cheap ring but it has great sentimental value for me.(disapproving) Sentimental also means too strongly influenced by emotional feelings.sentimental songs/stories