-t ə lə̇st noun
( -s )
Etymology: sentimental (I) + -ist
: one disposed to indulge in sensibility or sentimentality : romanticist
was essentially a sentimentalist with feelings close to the surface and stirred by the lightest touch — G.S.Haight
the sentimentalist , who lives by illusions, is let down more gently in English fiction than in French — Harry Levin
the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion — William James