sentimentality

Feeling word · 1 style

Light sorrow over what passes. Medium value, low saturation, grey-blue and dull pink, weak contrast; soft thin surface; low mood. Of old objects, dusk.

Styles

• Mono no Aware

Co-occurs with

• impermanence
• withering
• sadness
• slenderness
• pensiveness
• bleakness
• gloom
• austerity
• vanishing
• discolouration
• reminiscence

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