sentimentalist vs actor

sentimentalist and actor both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sentimentalist	Yes	No	No	No
actor	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, actor is a hypernym of sentimentalist; that is, actor is a word with a broader meaning than sentimentalist:

Other hypernyms of sentimentalist include doer, worker.

sentimentalist (noun)	actor (noun)
someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality	a theatrical performer
	a person who acts and gets things done