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sen·ti·ment

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–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.

[Origin: 1325–75; < ML sentīmentum, equiv. to L sentī(re) to feel + -mentum -ment; r. ME sentement < OF < ML, as above

]

—Related forms

sen·ti·ment·less, adjective

—Synonyms 1. See opinion. 2. See feeling. 3. 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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sen·ti·ment Audio Help (sěn'tə-mənt) Pronunciation Key
n.

A thought, view, or attitude, especially one based mainly on emotion instead of reason: An anti-American sentiment swept through the country. See Synonyms at feeling, opinion.
1. Emotion; feeling: Different forms of music convey different kinds of sentiment.
2. Tender or romantic feeling.
3. Maudlin emotion; sentimentality.
The emotional import of a passage as distinct from its form of expression.
The expression of delicate and sensitive feeling, especially in art and literature.

[Middle English sentement, from Old French, from Medieval Latin sentīmentum, from Latin sentīre, to feel; see sent- in Indo-European roots.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
sentiment

c.1374, sentement, "personal experience, one's own feeling," from O.Fr. sentement (12c.), from M.L. sentimentum "feeling, affection, opinion," from L. sentire "to feel" (see sense). Meaning "what one feels about something" (1639) and modern spelling seem to be a re-introduction from Fr. (where it was spelled sentiment by this time). A vogue word with wide application mid-18c., commonly "a thought colored by or proceeding from emotion" (1762), especially as expressed in literature or art. The 17c. sense is preserved in phrases such as my sentiments exactly.

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sentiment
noun
1.	tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion
2.	a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty; "my opinion differs from yours"; "I am not of your persuasion"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?" [syn: opinion]

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sentiment [ˈsentimənt] noun

tender feeling or emotion
Example: a song full of patriotic sentiment

Arabic:	شُعور رَقيق، عاطِفَه
Chinese (Simplified):	感情，柔情
Chinese (Traditional):	感情，柔情
Czech:	cit
Danish:	følelse
Dutch:	gevoel
Estonian:	tunne
Finnish:	tunne
French:	sentiment
German:	die Sentimentalität
Greek:	(συν)αίσθημα
Hungarian:	érzelem
Icelandic:	tilfinning
Indonesian:	perasaan
Italian:	sentimento

Japanese:	感情
Korean:	감상; 감정
Latvian:	jūtas
Lithuanian:	jausmas
Norwegian:	følelse
Polish:	uczucie
Portuguese (Brazil):	sentimento
Portuguese (Portugal):	sentimento
Romanian:	sentiment
Russian:	чувство
Slovak:	cit
Slovenian:	čustvo
Spanish:	sentimiento
Swedish:	känsla, känslosamhet
Turkish:	duygu, his

See also: sentimental, "sentiment" in any language

Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Main Entry: sen·ti·ment
Pronunciation: 'sent-&-m&nt
Function: noun
1 : an attitude, thought, or judgment colored or prompted byfeeling or emotion
2 : EMOTION 2, FEELING2

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Sentiment

Feel"ing\, n. 1. The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects.

Why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, . . . And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused? --Milton.

2. An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness.

The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. --Shak.

3. The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling.

4. Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility.

A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. --Garrick.

Tenderness for the feelings of others. --Macaulay.

5. That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator. --Fairholt.

Syn: Sensation; emotion; passion; sentiment; agitation; opinion. See Emotion, Passion, Sentiment.

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