sentiment

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  1. A thought, view, or attitude, especially one based mainly on emotion instead of reason: An anti-American sentiment swept through the country. See synonyms at feeling, opinion.
    1. Emotion; feeling: Different forms of music convey different kinds of sentiment.
    2. Tender or romantic feeling.
    3. Maudlin emotion; sentimentality.
  2. The emotional import of a passage as distinct from its form of expression.
  3. The expression of delicate and sensitive feeling, especially in art and literature.

[Middle English sentement, from Old French, from Medieval Latin sentīmentum, from Latin sentīre, to feel.]


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  1. A general cast of mind with regard to something: attitude, feeling. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude.
  2. Something believed or accepted as true by a person: belief, conviction, feeling, idea, mind, notion, opinion, persuasion, position, view. See opinion.
  3. A complex and usually strong subjective response, such as love or hate: affection, affectivity, emotion, feeling. See feelings.
  4. The capacity for or an act of responding to a stimulus: feeling, sensation, sense, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity. See awareness/unawareness.

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IN BRIEF: n. - A personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty; Tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion.

pronunciation Chronic remorse, as all the moralists have agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment — Aldous Huxley

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"The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist." - Thomas Carlyle

"Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share." - Graham Greene

"The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental." - Thomas H. Huxley

"Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination." - Alphonse De Lamartine

"He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make." - Abraham Lincoln

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Sentiment can refer to activity of five material senses (hearing, sight, touch, smell, and taste) mistaking them as transcendental:

  • Sentimentality, the literary device which is used to induce an emotional response disproportionate to the situation, and thus to substitute heightened and generally unthinking feeling for normal ethical and intellectual judgment

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Sentiment

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - følelse, opfattelse, mening, synspunkt, sentimentalitet, udtalelse

Nederlands (Dutch)
sentiment, gevoel, idee

Français (French)
n. - sentiment, opinion, (gén) sentimentalité, sensiblerie (péj)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Sentiment, Empfindung, Gedanke, Gefühl

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - συναίσθημα

Italiano (Italian)
sentimento

Português (Portuguese)
n. - sentimento (m)

Русский (Russian)
чувство, дух, сентиментальность

Español (Spanish)
n. - sentimiento

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - känsla, stämning, uppfattnig, mening, känsligt sinne, känslosamhet, välgångsönskan, tillönskan

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
感情, 心情, 情绪, 情操, 感伤, 多愁善感

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 感情, 心情, 情緒, 情操, 感傷, 多愁善感

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 감정, 소감, 함축

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 感情, 情緒, 感傷, 意見

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) عاطفه, وجدان, رأي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮רגש, רגשנות, הבעת רגשות, דיעה, נקודת-מבט‬


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