sentimental

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A sentimental person is strongly influenced by emotional feelings, especially about happy memories of past events or relationships with other people, rather than by careful thought and judgment based on facts:

Why be sentimental about that old coat? There's no point in keeping it just because you were wearing it when you first met me.

It's a cheap ring but it has great sentimental value for me.

giving too much importance to emotions, especially love or sadness:

silly sentimental songs/stories

related to feelings rather than reason:

When you ask which team will win, my sentimental favorite would have to be Philadelphia.

Sentimental also means expressing or causing gentle emotions:

He gets sentimental and starts crying when we talk about his mother.