sentiment
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From Old French sentement, from Latin sentimentum.
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sentiment (countable and uncountable, plural sentiments)
- A general thought, feeling, or sense.
- The sentiment emerged that we were acting too soon.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Publishing”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 15:
- "Now, my dear young friend," continued the bookseller, "you seem fond of reason; let me talk a little reason to you. Here, take your pamphlet again: there is good material in it, but it requires the making up. Leave out some of your arguments, and throw in a few sentiments,—something about free-born Britons and wooden shoes! Englishmen like to have a few sentiments ready for after-dinner use, in case of a speech...
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- The departure was not unduly prolonged. […] Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
- (uncountable) Feelings, especially tender feelings, as apart from reason or judgment, or of a weak or foolish kind.
- 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 99:
- To do the job thoroughly sentiment must be ignored and it seems inevitable that the famous Great Hall and the Doric Arch will have to be sacrificed to progress.
- 2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions[1], volume 5, number 1, MDPI, , pages 219–257:
- Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
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a general thought
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin sentimentum. By surface analysis, sentir + -ment.
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- IPA(key): (Central) [sən.tiˈmen]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [sən.tiˈment]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [sen.tiˈment]
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sentiment m (plural sentiments)
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French sentiment, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French sentement, from Latin sentimentum.
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sentiment n (plural sentimenten)
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French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French sentement, from Latin sentimentum.
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sentiment m (plural sentiments)
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Further reading edit
- “sentiment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
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Unadapted borrowing from English sentiment.
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sentiment m (uncountable)
Occitan edit
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From Latin sentimentum.
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sentiment m (plural sentiments)
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French sentiment, Latin sentimentum. Cf. also simțământ.
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sentiment n (plural sentimente)
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Declension of sentiment
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) sentiment | sentimentul | (niște) sentimente | sentimentele |
genitive/dative | (unui) sentiment | sentimentului | (unor) sentimente | sentimentelor |
vocative | sentimentule | sentimentelor |