Sentiment

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  • noun. A thought, view, or attitude, especially one based mainly on emotion instead of reason: synonym: view.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Emotion; feeling.
  • noun. Tender or romantic feeling.
  • noun. Maudlin emotion; sentimentality.
  • noun. The thought or emotion that underlies a remark or gesture.
  • noun. The expression of delicate and sensitive feeling, especially in art and literature.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Feeling; sensation; sentience; life.
  • noun. Higher feeling: emotion.
  • noun. In psychology, an emotional judgment; also, the faculty for a special emotion.
  • noun. Sensibility, or a tendency to make emotional judgments; tender susceptibility.
  • noun. Exhibition or manifestation of feeling or sensibility, as in literature, art, or music; a literary or artistic expression of a refined or delicate feeling or fancy.
  • noun. Thought; opinion; notion; judgment; the decision of the mind formed by deliberation or reflection: as, to express one's sentiments on a subject.
  • noun. The sense, thought, or opinion contained in words, but considered as distinct from them: as, we may like the sentiment when we dislike the language. Hence A thought expressed in striking words; especially, a sentence expressive of some particularly important or agreeable thought, or of a wish or desire; in particular, a toast, often couched in proverbial or epigrammatic language.
  • noun. plural In phrenology, the second division of the moral or affective faculties of the mind, the first being termed propensities. See phrenology.
  • noun. Taste; quality.
  • noun. = Syn. 2–4. Sentiment, Thought, Feeling. Sentiment has a peculiar place between thought and feeling, in which it also approaches the meaning of principle. It is more than that feeling which is sensation or emotion, by containing more of thought and by being more lofty, while it contains too much feeling to be merely thought, and it has large influence over the will: for example, the sentiment of patriotism; the sentiment of honor; the world is ruled by sentiment. The thought in a sentiment is often that of duty, and is penetrated and exalted by feeling.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A thought prompted by passion or feeling; a state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition prompting to action or expression.
  • noun. Hence, generally, a decision of the mind formed by deliberation or reasoning; thought; opinion; notion; judgment.
  • noun. A sentence, or passage, considered as the expression of a thought; a maxim; a saying; a toast.
  • noun. Sensibility; feeling; tender susceptibility.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A general thought, feeling, or sense.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
  • noun. tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion
  • Word Usage
    "While Greek love is not a sentiment, it may be sentimental, that is, an _affectation of sentiment_, differing from real sentiment as adulation does from adoration, as gallantry or the risking of life to secure favors do from genuine gallantry of the heart and self-sacrifice for the benefit of another."
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