different between sentimentalist vs sentimentalize

English

Etymology

sentimental +? -ist

Noun

sentimentalist (plural sentimentalists)

1. A person who is sentimental.

   • But Flay, for all his longing to return to his birthplace was no sentimentalist in exile. His thoughts when they turned to the castle were by no means in the nature of reveries.

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French sentimentaliste.

Adjective

sentimentalist m or n (feminine singular sentimentalist?, masculine plural sentimentali?ti, feminine and neuter plural sentimentaliste)

1. sentimentalistic

Declension

English

Etymology

sentimental +? -ize

Verb

sentimentalize (third-person singular simple present sentimentalizes, present participle sentimentalizing, simple past and past participle sentimentalized)

1. (transitive) To give a sentimental feel to.

   Let us not sentimentalize things just because they are old. Getting all dewy-eyed about it because it was started in the 17th century doesn't make sense when we're talking about the town dump.

2. (intransitive) To think or act in a sentimental manner, or like a sentimentalist; to affect exquisite sensibility.
   • 1857, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago

     he learnt to sentimentalize over cathedrals and monasteries , pictures and statues , saints and kaisers