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noun

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.

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

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

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Quotes:

"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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For a list of words related to sentiment, see:

• Mental States, Processes, and Behavior - sentiment: positive or negative feeling about idea, object, or person
• Judgments and Critiques - sentiment: judgment based on feeling; opinion

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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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