sentiment

sentiment
sentimentless, adj.
/sen"teuh meuhnt/, n.
1. an attitude toward something; regard; opinion.
2. a mental feeling; emotion: a sentiment of pity.
3. refined or tender emotion; manifestation of the higher or more refined feelings.
4. exhibition or manifestation of feeling or sensibility, or appeal to the tender emotions, in literature, art, or music.
5. a thought influenced by or proceeding from feeling or emotion.
6. the thought or feeling intended to be conveyed by words, acts, or gestures as distinguished from the words, acts, or gestures themselves.
[1325-75; < ML sentimentum, equiv. to L senti(re) to feel + -mentum -MENT; r. ME sentement < OF < ML, as above]
Syn. 1. See opinion. 2. See feeling. 3. SENTIMENT, SENTIMENTALITY are terms for sensitiveness to emotional feelings. SENTIMENT is a sincere and refined sensibility, a tendency to be influenced by emotion rather than reason or fact: to appeal to sentiment. SENTIMENTALITY implies affected, excessive, sometimes mawkish sentiment: weak sentimentality.

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