SENTIMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sentiment mean? 

• SENTIMENT (noun)
  The noun SENTIMENT has 2 senses:

1. tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion

2. a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty

  Familiarity information: SENTIMENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENTIMENT (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

opinion; persuasion; sentiment; thought; view

Context example:

what are your thoughts on Haiti?

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)

 Context examples 

He looked as if he fully understood and honoured such a sentiment.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

And speaking of sentiment brings us very naturally to the 'Dovecote'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If people are so silly as to indulge the sentiment, is it my fault?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But you may be assured that I would not sacrifice one sentiment of local attachment of yours, or of any one whom I loved, for all the improvements in the world.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

You know the weak side of her character, and may imagine the sentiments and expressions which were torturing me.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She advocated a high tone of sentiment; but she did not know the sensations of sympathy and pity; tenderness and truth were not in her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Now, how were his sentiments to be read?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Saying this, he suddenly quitted me, fearful, perhaps, of any change in my sentiments.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But his anger, I am persuaded, lasted no longer than he remained in any doubt of your sister's sentiments.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“Yes, yes, I know, and that man my brother—more sentiment! Bah!”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)