Definition of "sentimentalized" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of sentimentalize. (verb)

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• "All of these forces transformed grief from a commonplace eventuality into an experience to be feared and to a certain extent sentimentalized."
• "The stories and memoirs written by newer waves of immigrants to America - writers like Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz and Gish Jen - commute back and forth between the old world and the new, while the immigrant community, unlike�Kazan's lively Brooklyn streets, is much less sentimentalized and more fragmented and mobile."
• "When we're nostalgic, we think about interactions with significant others in a sentimentalized past, and those social memories boost feelings of fellowship, researchers suggested."