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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In the meantime, however, bond markets may play a greater role in defining investor sentiment, given the sharp move higher in yields that has taken place since the war began on Feb. 28.
From Barron's
Barometers of public sentiment, the shares of the public funds sold off last year as the sector’s popularity cooled.
From Barron's
The commercial M365 revenue growth curve “should be bending higher and yet it’s not,” the note said about the sentiment of customers in Asia.
From Barron's
At least one school of thought suggests the tech giant’s massive capital spending plans, which could reach $185 billion this year, doubling the 2025 total, have rattled investor sentiment.
From Barron's
Despite the stock reactions, Favuzza said his impression of early buy-side sentiment was that the announcement “isn’t as big of a deal as it seems on the surface.”
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