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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024sen•ti•ment /ˈsɛntəmənt/USA pronunciation n. - a feeling toward something;
opinion: [uncountable]Public sentiment is against taxes.[countable]I agree; those are my sentiments exactly. - refined, delicate, sensitive emotion:[uncountable]You can't allow sentiment to get in the way of business.
See -sent-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024sen•ti•ment (sen′tə mənt),USA pronunciation n. - an attitude toward something;
regard;
opinion. - a mental feeling;
emotion:a sentiment of pity. - refined or tender emotion;
manifestation of the higher or more refined feelings. - exhibition or manifestation of feeling or sensibility, or appeal to the tender emotions, in literature, art, or music.
- a thought influenced by or proceeding from feeling or emotion.
- the thought or feeling intended to be conveyed by words, acts, or gestures as distinguished from the words, acts, or gestures themselves.
- Medieval Latin, as above
- Old French
- Medieval Latin sentīmentum, equivalent. to Latin sentī(re) to feel + -mentum -ment; replacing Middle English sentement
- 1325–75
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See opinion.
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged See feeling.
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged 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.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: sentiment /ˈsɛntɪmənt/ n - susceptibility to tender, delicate, or romantic emotion: she has too much sentiment to be successful
- (often plural) a thought, opinion, or attitude
- exaggerated, overindulged, or mawkish feeling or emotion
- an expression of response to deep feeling, esp in art or literature
- a feeling, emotion, or awareness: a sentiment of pity
- a mental attitude modified or determined by feeling: there is a strong revolutionary sentiment in his country
- a feeling conveyed, or intended to be conveyed, in words
Etymology: 17th Century: from Medieval Latin sentīmentum, from Latin sentīre to feel |