| 释义 |
sentiment /senˈti-mənt/ noun- A thought or body of thought tinged with or influenced by emotion
- An opinion, attitude or judgement
- A thought or feeling expressed in words
- A maxim
- Emotion
- Feeling bound up with some object or ideal
- Regard to ideal considerations
- Sensibility, refined feelings, esp as expressed in art or literature
- Consciously worked-up or partly insincere feeling
- Sentimentality, mawkishness
- A toast, esp epigrammatically expressed, proposed for drinking (old)
ORIGIN: LL sentīmentum, from L sentīre to feel sentimental /-menˈtl/ adjective - Relating to or expressive of sentiment
- Easily feeling and expressing tender emotions, esp love, friendship and pity
- Providing or designed to provoke such emotions, esp in large measure and without subtlety
- Closely associated with, or moved (to tears) by, fond memories of the past
sentimenˈtalist noun sentimentality /-men-talˈi-ti/ or sentimenˈtalism noun - The state or quality of being sentimental
- The tendency to indulge in sentiment or the affectation of fine feelings
- An act or statement that is sentimental
- Sloppiness
sentimentalīzāˈtion or sentimentalīsāˈtion noun sentimenˈtalize or sentimenˈtalise intransitive verb - To behave sentimentally
- To indulge in sentimentality
transitive verb- To make sentimental
- To treat sentimentally
sentimenˈtally adverb sentimental value noun The value that a person ascribes to an object because of its personal associations, regardless of its monetary worth |