romanticist

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality
noun an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism
adjective belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts

From romantic + -ist.

The romanticists were quietists, and their scenery is characteristic. — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
And it is all the deadlier because, in your romanticist cant, they love one another. — Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy, Bernard Shaw
These the mere romanticist must eschew, if he do not wish to offend or to disgust. — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition: Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes, Edgar Allan Poe

sentimentalist

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