sentiment
Americannoun
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a mental feeling; emotion.
a sentiment of pity.
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refined or tender emotion; manifestation of the higher or more refined feelings.
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exhibition or manifestation of feeling or sensibility, or appeal to the tender emotions, in literature, art, or music.
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a thought influenced by or proceeding from feeling or emotion.
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the thought or feeling intended to be conveyed by words, acts, or gestures as distinguished from the words, acts, or gestures themselves.
noun
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susceptibility to tender, delicate, or romantic emotion
she has too much sentiment to be successful
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(often plural) a thought, opinion, or attitude
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exaggerated, overindulged, or mawkish feeling or emotion
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an expression of response to deep feeling, esp in art or literature
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a feeling, emotion, or awareness
a sentiment of pity
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a mental attitude modified or determined by feeling
there is a strong revolutionary sentiment in his country
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a feeling conveyed, or intended to be conveyed, in words
Usage
What 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 Thesaurus.com.
Related Words
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.
Other Word Forms
- sentimentless adjective
Etymology
Origin of sentiment
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
Example Sentences
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“Industry” isn’t even particularly concerned with the now-banal sentiment that “gay characters can be flawed and bad, too!”
From Salon
"I do think that community tensions are being exploited through social media, online anti-immigration sentiment and I think that's sort of having a bleed into what's actually happening on the ground," she said.
From BBC
Walking around the fair, a shared sentiment of post-fire rejuvenation, cultural collaboration and a pride for the Los Angeles community was deeply felt.
From Los Angeles Times
Consumer sentiment about today’s top brands could keep them from succumbing to AI-driven disruption, much as Swiss luxury watchmakers survived the advent of cheaper mass-market competitors.
From Barron's
Consumer sentiment about today’s top brands could keep them from succumbing to AI-driven disruption, much as Swiss luxury watchmakers survived the advent of cheaper mass-market competitors.
From Barron's
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