sentiment

Speech parts

1. sentiment - Noun

2. sentiment - Adjective

Meaning

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.

Hence, generally, a decision of the mind formed by deliberation or reasoning; thought; opinion; notion; judgment; as, to express one's sentiments on a subject.

A sentence, or passage, considered as the expression of a thought; a maxim; a saying; a toast.

Sensibility; feeling; tender susceptibility.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

opinion view feeling sensibility thought position notion attitude mood emotion affection outlook persuasion liking fondness
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Antonyms

fact venom malice loathing detestation opposition
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Hypernyms

belief feeling

Hyponyms

idea mind politics pole judgment sentimentality

Phrases with the word

patriotic sentiment tender sentiment lack of sentiment public sentiment anti-british sentiment anti-war sentiment

Examples

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. Norman Mailer

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment. Benjamin Disraeli

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women. Voltaire

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. Grover Cleveland

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. W. Somerset Maugham

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. Edward Abbey

Close letter words and terms

sentient being sentient beings sentiently sentiment analysis sentiment du fer sentiment grass