单词 | sensibilitous |
释义 | sensibilitousadj. rare (chiefly depreciative). Characterized by (esp. affected or shallow) sentimentality; mawkishly sentimental. Cf. sensibility n. 4b.Before the second half of the 20th cent. apparently only in Byron, and subsequently chiefly used in discussions of 18th- and 19th-cent. literature and society. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [adjective] > shallowly lackadaisy1748 lackadaisical1768 sensibilitous1811 1811 Ld. Byron Let. 29 June (1973) II. 55 But you are a Sentimental & Sensibilitous person, & will rhyme to the end of the Chapter. 1970 18th-cent. Stud. 3 517 The ensuing chapters..are full of the routines of exquisite pathos, sensibilitous exclamation, and a Richardsonian particularity. 2015 C. Rawson Swift & Others ix. 225 The well-meaning shallowness which finds the poor ‘interesting’ to the sensibilitous heart. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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