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SENTIMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
Example:
what are your thoughts on Haiti?
Synonyms:
opinion; persuasion; sentiment; thought; view
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sentiment" is a kind of...):
belief (any cognitive content held as true)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sentiment"):
idea (a personal view)
judgement; judgment; mind (an opinion formed by judging something)
eyes (opinion or judgment)
parti pris; preconceived idea; preconceived notion; preconceived opinion; preconception; prepossession (an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence)
pole (one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions)
political sympathies; politics (the opinion you hold with respect to political questions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("sentiment" is a kind of...):
feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sentiment"):
sentimentality (extravagant or affected feeling or emotion)
razbliuto (the sentimental feeling you have about someone you once loved but no longer do)
Derivation:
sentimental (effusively or insincerely emotional)
sentimental (given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality)
Context examples:
He found that the newspaper storiette should never be tragic, should never end unhappily, and should never contain beauty of language, subtlety of thought, nor real delicacy of sentiment.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Could you look, sir, into my heart, you would approve to the full the sentiments which animate me.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And though the love of a hyacinth may be rather domestic, who can tell, the sentiment once raised, but you may in time come to love a rose?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Several others declared their sentiments to the same purpose, when my master proposed an expedient to the assembly, whereof he had indeed borrowed the hint from me.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He spends his days in uttering noble sentiments, and contradicting them by ignoble actions.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My friend took the lady’s ungloved hand, and examined it with as close an attention and as little sentiment as a scientist would show to a specimen.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"If your lordship will graciously permit me to open my mouth, I shall be happy to express my sentiments," said he, with elaborate sarcasm.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Well, Mrs. Lucca, said the prosaic Gregson, laying his hand upon the lady’s sleeve with as little sentiment as if she were a Notting Hill hooligan, I am not very clear yet who you are or what you are; but you’ve said enough to make it very clear that we shall want you at the Yard.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have spent so many happy months there! (with a little sigh of sentiment).
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
