Sentiment
['sentɪm(ə)nt] or ['sɛntɪmənt]
Definition
(noun.) tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion.
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Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) 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.) A sentence, or passage, considered as the expression of a thought; a maxim; a saying; a toast.
(a.) Sensibility; feeling; tender susceptibility.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Feeling, sensibility, tenderness, emotion.[2]. Thought (prompted by feeling), opinion, notion, judgment.[3]. Saying, maxim, toast, striking remark.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Thought, feeling, notion, opinion, maxim, susceptibility, emotion,apprehension, impression, conviction
ANT:Vacuity, ignorance, nonsense, crudity, bugbear, conjecture, assumption,impression, hypothesis, preconception, prejudice
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Definition
n. a thought occasioned by feeling: opinion: judgment: sensibility: feeling: a thought expressed in words: a maxim: a toast: emotion: an exhibition of feeling as in literature or art: (pl. phren.) the second division of the moral faculties.—adj. Sentimen′tal having or abounding in sentiments or reflections: having an excess of sentiment or feeling: affectedly tender.—v.t. Sentimen′talise to talk sentiment.—ns Sentimen′talism Sentimental′ity quality of being sentimental: affectation of fine feeling; Sentimen′talist one who affects sentiment or fine feeling: one guided by mere sentiment: one who regards sentiment as more important than reason.—adv. Sentimen′tally.
Typist: Vern
Examples
- I have no softness there, no--sympathy--sentiment--nonsense. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She might love, but she did not deserve Edmund by any other sentiment. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Such links of sentiment and association were of little avail against the intense separatism of the Greek political institutions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I dare say at some time or other Sentiment and Comedy will bring THEIR husbands home and have THEIR nests upstairs too. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If people are so silly as to indulge the sentiment, is it my fault? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Oh, if you are for high notions and double-refined sentiment, I've naught to say. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A very trifle affects me now; so do not be too vain, nor attribute to sentiment what is due to the scarlet fever. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Talk sentiment to him, and you would be answered by sarcasm. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Well, that's partly it, said Mr. Venn, with ostentatious sentiment. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I was conscious that every other sentiment, regret, or passion had by degrees merged into a yearning, clinging affection for them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- For all the light and shadow of sentiment and passion play even about the syllogism. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Terrible and inhuman were his examinations into every detail; there was no privacy he would spare, no old sentiment but he would turn it over. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There was neither jealousy, inquietude, or mistrust in his sentiment; it was devotion and faith. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Yet a feeling of awe, a breathless sentiment of wonder, a painful sense of the degradation of humanity, was introduced into every heart. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Le sentiment de la fausseté des plaisirs présents, et l'ignorance de la vanité des plaisirs absents causent l'inconstance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Never had Lefferts so abounded in the sentiments that adorn Christian manhood and exalt the sanctity of the home. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The will never creates new sentiments. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Young Thomas expressed these sentiments sitting astride of a chair before the fire, with his arms on the back, and his sulky face on his arms. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I even promised that I would hide my uncouth sentiments in my own breast. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They enter with more warmth into such sentiments, and feel more sensibly the pleasure, which arises from them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- My Walworth sentiments must be taken at Walworth; none but my official sentiments can be taken in this office. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Official sentiments are one thing. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- You speak my sentiments precisely, ma'am, said Shirley, and I thank you for anticipating me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It seems, said Estella, very calmly, that there are sentiments, fancies,--I don't know how to call them,--which I am not able to comprehend. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Tars Tarkas was to get into communication with Thark and learn the sentiments of his people toward his return from Dor. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation of the sentiments and affections. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Helstone could not bear these sentiments. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Ada suggested that it was comfortable to know that Mr. Jellyby did not mean these destructive sentiments. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The labour of the thought disturbs the regular progress of the sentiments, as we shall observe presently. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- To a man of my sentiments it is unspeakably gratifying to be able to say this. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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