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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

/ ˈɛԳɪəԳ /

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • t·Գ· adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sentiment1

First recorded in 1325–75; from Medieval Latin ԳīԳٳܳ, equivalent to Latin Գī() “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 ԳīԳٳܳ, from Latin Գī 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

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As for the separation sentiment: "I'm not worried about it."

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Autism Speaks, an advocacy organisation, agreed in part with Ms May's sentiments.

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This broad sentiment was echoed across the political board - nearly four out of five Conservative voters and two thirds of Reform voters felt this way.

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The Party has been appealing to nationalist sentiments to justify its retaliatory tariffs, with state media calling on people to "weather storms together".

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In April, the firm said sales had fallen to their lowest level in three years and warned investors that "changing political sentiment" could continue to hurt demand.

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are other ways to say sentiment?

A sentiment is a mental feeling or tender emotion, or a thought proceeding from feeling or emotion. How is it different from feeling, emotion, and passion? Find out on .

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