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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sentiment
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
national
▪ Surely now national sentiment demanded that he return to Baghdad and await big bombs dispatched by white-gloved Westerners.
▪ Nowadays such national sentiments are also defended by those who place themselves within the traditions of liberalism.
nationalist
▪ According to Western reports, officials in Xinjiang had acknowledged the impact of rising nationalist sentiment across the border in the Soviet Union.
▪ Many observers are worried that a resurgent interest in local cultures must inevitably lead to xenophobia and ultra-#nationalist sentiment.
▪ Transnational links were shattered by closing frontiers and the tide of nationalist sentiment sweeping through society.
nationalistic
▪ Though, as we discuss below, this provision has been modified, the nationalistic sentiment was clearly registered by prospective buyers.
popular
▪ In effect, the proposals discussed above take no account at all of popular sentiment.
▪ That was the message that the two businessmen carried to other neighboring communities. Popular sentiment was on their side.
▪ The real problem with assessing popular sentiment over the 1790s is the interplay of contradictory forces shifting it between radicalism and loyalism.
▪ Though they were breaking the law, the popular sentiment was such that they were seldom prosecuted.
▪ In his biographical criticism this took the form of showing how popular sentiment acting on suggestible minds simplified people into myths.
public
▪ But analysts said politics and public sentiment almost certainly played key roles.
▪ It is imperative that courts decide cases based solely on the evidence and never on public sentiment, however strong.
▪ Are there more representative ways in which public sentiments regarding governmental action may be expressed? 2.
▪ A massive change of public sentiment is always overdetermined.
▪ Yet in the years before 1938 Eden was obviously closer than his critics to public sentiment.
▪ Rojas did not attend the meeting, which was the first of four sessions held to gauge public sentiment.
▪ BIn this saga of judicial wrangling, the government misread public sentiment.
▪ Clearly miscalculating public sentiment as well as underestimating his rival, in 1999 Netanyahu adopted the same strategy.
religious
▪ The anticlerical feeling was not incompatible with a very active religious sentiment.
▪ In the very next county, he alleged, five or six well-meaning men were suffering for having published mild religious sentiments.
▪ Why is Feuerbach suspicious of religious ideas and sentiments?
similar
▪ And I could turn out imitative verse which expressed similar sentiments.
▪ Ruskin, too, had similar sentiments about Lasinio.
▪ Ray Cochrane has expressed similar sentiments.
■ NOUN
market
▪ The record price caused a revolution in market sentiment.
▪ Figures showing a fall last month in official reserves did not dent market sentiment.
▪ During the first week in March, market sentiment was anticipating a cut in base rates.
▪ Moreover, stock market sentiment is still flowing strongly against techs.
▪ They may also arrange sub-underwriting of any cash underwritten alternative and provide valuable feedback on market sentiments regarding the offer.
■ VERB
agree
▪ I agreed with his sentiment, of course.
▪ Mr. Hughes I am not sure that I can agree with the last sentiment that my hon. Friend expressed.
▪ P White I agree with all those sentiments, especially the one about Bailie.
▪ Robertson found himself agreeing with its sentiments.
▪ Those who saw Fred play will fully agree with those sentiments.
echo
▪ Forgive me if I share them with you, in the hope that they may echo your own sentiments.
▪ He was echoing the sentiments of almost every one of his coworkers.
▪ Furthermore, what the men express echoes the sentiments of soldiers in wars throughout history.
▪ Ann Lewis, spokesperson for the Clinton reelection campaign echoes that sentiment for the Democratic side.
echoed
▪ Andreeva's letter had echoed such sentiments: indeed it had gone further and was completely incompatible with the principles of restructuring.
▪ Four months later, Cornish echoed the sentiment in a letter to Stewart.
express
▪ And I could turn out imitative verse which expressed similar sentiments.
▪ He sent this humorous little roofer to express his sentiments.
▪ Ray Cochrane has expressed similar sentiments.
▪ Furthermore, what the men express echoes the sentiments of soldiers in wars throughout history.
▪ This is a family peculiarity-a reticence in expressing sentiment or deep feeling.
▪ Yet, they were expressing the sentiment of every Koreanthat this division was unnatural.
reflect
▪ I know that, in saying that, I reflect the sentiments of all hon. Members.
share
▪ Though his language is softer, Sweeney shares these sentiments.
▪ President Wahid did not share these sentiments.
▪ That Liza did not appear to share these sentiments was something which Harriet grieved over and found hard to accept.
▪ She did not share his sentiments.
voice
▪ There is evidence, from a variety of sources, that ordinary people voicing anti-black sentiments typically deny their own prejudices.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He was overwhelmed by sentiment as he thought of his wife.
▪ Most people were outraged by the bombing, and their letters of sympathy reflected this sentiment.
▪ Several meetings were held to determine what public sentiment was on the issue.
▪ The speeches were full of nationalist sentiments.
▪ Those are fine sentiments, boy, but they're only going to cause you trouble.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He could afford his lofty sentiment.
▪ He makes no record of his own sentiments at this point; nor of what he said in reply.
▪ The characters have a heightened and highly emotional response to events, actions and sentiments.
▪ These sentiments remained with him until the morning light came shining through the windows.
▪ They could have done without De Gaulle's sentiment.
▪ This was a sentiment roundly endorsed by all present.
▪ Yet in the face of this particular story such sentiments can seem like pious claptrap.
▪ Your sentiments have been echoed in the faculty chambers along with many others.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sentiment

Sentiment \Sen"ti*ment\, n. [OE. sentement, OF. sentement, F. sentiment, fr. L. sentire to perceive by the senses and mind, to feel, to think. See Sentient, a.]

  1. 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.

    The word sentiment, agreeably to the use made of it by our best English writers, expresses, in my own opinion very happily, those complex determinations of the mind which result from the co["o]peration of our rational powers and of our moral feelings.
    --Stewart.

    Alike to council or the assembly came, With equal souls and sentiments the same.
    --Pope.

  2. 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.

    Sentiments of philosophers about the perception of external objects.
    --Reid.

    Sentiment, as here and elsewhere employed by Reid in the meaning of opinion (sententia), is not to be imitated.
    --Sir W. Hamilton.

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

  4. Sensibility; feeling; tender susceptibility.

    Mr. Hume sometimes employs (after the manner of the French metaphysicians) sentiment as synonymous with feeling; a use of the word quite unprecedented in our tongue.
    --Stewart.

    Less of sentiment than sense.
    --Tennyson.

    Syn: Thought; opinion; notion; sensibility; feeling.

    Usage: Sentiment, Opinion, Feeling. An opinion is an intellectual judgment in respect to any and every kind of truth. Feeling describes those affections of pleasure and pain which spring from the exercise of our sentient and emotional powers. Sentiment (particularly in the plural) lies between them, denoting settled opinions or principles in regard to subjects which interest the feelings strongly, and are presented more or less constantly in practical life. Hence, it is more appropriate to speak of our religious sentiments than opinions, unless we mean to exclude all reference to our feelings. The word sentiment, in the singular, leans ordinarily more to the side of feeling, and denotes a refined sensibility on subjects affecting the heart. ``On questions of feeling, taste, observation, or report, we define our sentiments. On questions of science, argument, or metaphysical abstraction, we define our opinions. The sentiments of the heart. The opinions of the mind . . . There is more of instinct in sentiment, and more of definition in opinion. The admiration of a work of art which results from first impressions is classed with our sentiments; and, when we have accounted to ourselves for the approbation, it is classed with our opinions.''
    --W. Taylor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sentiment

late 14c., sentement, "personal experience, one's own feeling," from Old French sentement (12c.), from Medieval Latin sentimentum "feeling, affection, opinion," from Latin sentire "to feel" (see sense (n.)).\n

\nMeaning "what one feels about something" (1630s) and modern spelling seem to be a re-introduction from French (where it was spelled sentiment by 17c.). A vogue word mid-18c. with wide application, commonly "a thought colored by or proceeding from emotion" (1762), especially as expressed in literature or art. The 17c. sense is preserved in phrases such as my sentiments exactly.

Wiktionary
sentiment

n. A general thought, feeling, or sense.

WordNet
sentiment

  1. n. tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion

  2. a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty; "my opinion differs from yours"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?" [syn: opinion, persuasion, view, thought]

Wikipedia
Sentiment

Sentiment can refer to activity of five material senses (hearing, sight, touch, smell, and taste) associating them with or as something considered transcendental:

  • Feelings and emotions
  • Sentimentality, the literary device which is used to induce an emotional response disproportionate to the situation, and thus to substitute heightened and generally unthinking feeling for normal ethical and intellectual judgment
  • Sentimental novel, an eighteenth-century literary genre
  • Market sentiment, optimism or pessimism in financial and commodity markets
  • Sentiment analysis, automatic detection of opinions embodied in text
  • News sentiment, automatic detection of opinions embodied in news

Usage examples of "sentiment".

Venus over her native seas, and the mild influence which her presence diffused in the palace of Milan, express to every age the natural sentiments of the heart, in the just and pleasing language of allegorical fiction.

I want to say that in sometimes alluding to the Declaration of Independence, I have only uttered the sentiments that Henry Clay used to hold.

He obeyed her, and the romantic and enthusiastic girl, seating herself upon a fragment of rock beside the path, sang the delicate and sweet verses of the Irish poet, with a natural felicity of execution, which amply compensated for the absence of those Italian arts, which so frequently elevate the music at the expense of the sentiment.

His life was stained with the most opposite vices, and the ulcers which covered his body, anticipated before his death the sentiment of hell-tortures.

Candles, incense, flowers: we are Catholic after all despite anticlerical sentiments.

Wright and the promise of more independence and even innovation of approach inherent in the new sentiments of Japanese architects, the 1920s and 1930s witnessed a general continuation of the earlier reliance upon, and imitation of, Western architectural trends.

However, on arriving at power he dared not oppose himself to the exigencies of the moment, and he consented for a time to delude the ambitious dupes who kept up a buzz of fine sentiments of liberty around him.

The more she exerted herself to bend his resolution, and the more scope she gave to the unstudied expression of her artless sentiments, the more inextricably was the magician caught, and the more firm and inexorable was his purpose.

Anhedonia was apparently coined by Ribot, a Continental Frenchman, who in his 19th-century Psychologic des Sentiments says he means it to denote the psychoequivalent of analgesia, which is the neurologic suppression of pain.

States, cordially concurring with the Congress of the United States, in the penitential and pious sentiments expressed in the aforesaid resolutions, and heartily approving of the devotional design and purpose thereof, do hereby appoint the first Thursday of August next to be observed by the people of the United States as a day of national humiliation and prayer.

The poem contained some passages expressive of liberal sentiment, and these, much rather than its obscenity, attracted the attention of the police.

Contrat-Social, Mont-Blanc, Guillaume-Tell, Brutus et cette autre, dont on ne peut jamais prononcer le nom sans un vif sentiment de reconnaissance, la Butte-des-Moulins.

Actionists, beatniks, hippies and serial killers were all pure libertarians who affirmed the rights of the individual against social norms and against what they believed to be the hypocrisy of morality, sentiment, justice and pity.

The attendants rather endeavoured to beguile the time, by dexterously starting new topics of conversation, upon which Imogen delivered her plain and natural sentiments with the utmost sincerity, than to detain her by open force.

Yet, he could not help but feel that this sentiment amounted to a betrayal of Alayna and the new love they shared.