sentiment

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.

Proto-Italic *sentiō

Latin sentiō

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom

Proto-Italic *-mentom

Latin -mentum

Latin sentimentumder.

Old French sentementder.

English sentiment

From Old French sentement, from Latin sentimentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.tɪ.mənt/

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Noun

sentiment (countable and uncountable, plural sentiments)

2. A general thought, feeling, or sense.

   Synonyms: emotion; affect

   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...

   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     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.

4. (uncountable) Feelings, especially tender feelings, as apart from reason or judgment, or of a weak or foolish kind.

   Hypernym: emotion

   Near-synonyms: feels; maudlinness

   Good decision-making is not governed by mere sentiment.

   • 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, →DOI, archived from the original on 20 December 2014, 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.

Derived terms

• presentiment
• sentimental
• sentiment analysis
• sentimentless

Translations

a general thought

• Bulgarian: усещане (bg) n (useštane)
• Finnish: ajatus (fi)
• French: sentiment (fr) m
• Haitian Creole: santiman
• Indonesian: sentimen (id)
• Japanese: 感情 (ja) (かんじょう, kanjō)
• Portuguese: sentimento (pt) m
• Romanian: sentiment (ro) n
• Russian: ощущение (ru) n (oščuščenije)
• Slovak: sentiment m
• Spanish: sentimiento (es) m
• Tagalog: sentimyento

feelings or emotions

• Amharic: ስሜት (səmet)
• Arabic: عَاطِفَة f (ʕāṭifa)
• Bulgarian: чувство (bg) n (čuvstvo), емоция (bg) f (emocija)
• Finnish: tunne (fi), tuntemus (fi)
• German: Gefühl (de) n
• Indonesian: sentimen (id)
• Lithuanian: sentimentas m
• Māori: kakare
• Polish: sentyment (pl) m

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin sentimentum. By surface analysis, sentir +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [sən.tiˈme̞n]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [sən.tiˈment]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [sən.tiˈmen]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [sen.tiˈment]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [sen.tiˈmen]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

sentiment m (plural sentiments)

1. emotion; feeling; sentiment

Related terms

• sentimental
• sentimentalisme

See also

• emoció

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French sentiment, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French sentement, from Latin sentimentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɛn.tiˈmɛnt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: sen‧ti‧ment
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

sentiment n (plural sentimenten, no diminutive)

1. (countable, uncountable) sentiment

Derived terms

• sentimenteel

Descendants

• Afrikaans: sentiment
• → Indonesian: sentimen

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French sentement, from Latin sentimentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃/

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• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

sentiment m (plural sentiments)

1. a sentiment, general thought, sense or feeling
2. an opinion

Derived terms

• prendre par les sentiments
• sentiment du devoir accompli
• sentiment du fer

Related terms

• sentir

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: santiman

Further reading

• “sentiment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sentiment.

Noun

sentiment m (uncountable)

1. sentiment (first sense)
2. (economics) general opinion of financial experts about a particular market

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin sentimentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sentiˈmen]

• Audio (Béarn):

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Noun

sentiment m (plural sentiments)

1. feeling (emotion; impression)
2. feeling, intuition
3. sentiment, emotion

Related terms

• sentimental
• sentir

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006), Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎^[2], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 906

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sentiment, Latin sentimentum. Cf. also simțământ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sen.tiˈment/

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Noun

sentiment n (plural sentimente)

1. sentiment, thought, sense, feeling

   Synonyms: simțire, (dated) simțământ

2. belief, opinion

   Synonyms: credință, opinie, convingere

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sentiment	sentimentul	sentimente	sentimentele
genitive-dative	sentiment	sentimentului	sentimente	sentimentelor
vocative	sentimentule		sentimentelor