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sentiment

[ sen-tuh-muhnt ]

noun

  1. an attitude toward something; regard; opinion.
  2. a mental feeling; emotion:

    a sentiment of pity.

  3. refined or tender emotion; manifestation of the higher or more refined feelings.
  4. exhibition or manifestation of feeling or sensibility, or appeal to the tender emotions, in literature, art, or music.
  5. a thought influenced by or proceeding from feeling or emotion.
  6. the thought or feeling intended to be conveyed by words, acts, or gestures as distinguished from the words, acts, or gestures themselves.


sentiment

/ ˈsɛntɪmənt /

noun

  1. susceptibility to tender, delicate, or romantic emotion

    she has too much sentiment to be successful

  2. often plural a thought, opinion, or attitude
  3. exaggerated, overindulged, or mawkish feeling or emotion
  4. an expression of response to deep feeling, esp in art or literature
  5. a feeling, emotion, or awareness

    a sentiment of pity

  6. a mental attitude modified or determined by feeling

    there is a strong revolutionary sentiment in his country

  7. a feeling conveyed, or intended to be conveyed, in words


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Other Words From

  • senti·ment·less adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sentiment1

First recorded in 1325–75; from Medieval Latin sentīmentum, equivalent to Latin sentī(re) “to feel” + -mentum -ment; replacing Middle English sentement, from Old French, from Medieval Latin, as above

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sentiment1

C17: from Medieval Latin sentīmentum, from Latin sentīre to feel

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Synonym Study

See opinion. Sentiment, sentimentality are terms for sensitiveness to emotional feelings. Sentiment is a sincere and refined sensibility, a tendency to be influenced by emotion rather than reason or fact: to appeal to sentiment. Sentimentality implies affected, excessive, sometimes mawkish sentiment: weak sentimentality.

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Example Sentences

Throughout the progressive movement, this sentiment is echoed almost everywhere.

Now, the key is to hold on to that sentiment and use the popular support as leverage.

There was a collective gasp at both the four-letter word and the bitter sentiment it carried.

So to hear such fervent anti-Ortega sentiment from previously devoted campesinos and compañeros is unprecedented.

Kaine picked up the former sentiment, arguing against the notion that America is on decline.

With which magnanimous sentiment he turned on his clumsy heel, and entered his apartment again.

Aunt Ri gazed at her with a sentiment as near to veneration as her dry, humorous, practical nature was capable of feeling.

One seldom gets the real sentiment and beauty of a place in approaching it by railway.

Her black eyes looked like wells of sentiment, and her body a mould for a new race of men.

But when he was awake to it, the sentiment which both blinds and invigorates old men took possession of him.

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