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sentiment

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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

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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

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