— sentimentally , adv.
/sen'teuh men"tl/ , adj.
1. expressive of or appealing to sentiment, esp. the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
2. pertaining to or dependent on sentiment: We kept the old photograph for purely sentimental reasons.
3. weakly emotional; mawkishly susceptible or tender: the sentimental Victorians.
4. characterized by or showing sentiment or refined feeling.
[ 1740-50; SENTIMENT + -AL 1 ]
Syn. 1. romantic, tender, nostalgic; maudlin, bathetic.
Ant. 1, 4. dispassionate.