# sentiment
## English
### Etymology

From Old French sentement, from Latin sentimentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛn.tɪ.mənt/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

sentiment (countable and uncountable, plural sentiments)
* 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.
* (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, volume 5, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, 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

* sentiment analysis
* sentimental

#### Translations
## Catalan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [sən.tiˈmen]
* IPA: (Balearic) [sən.tiˈment]
* IPA: (Valencia) [sen.tiˈment]

### Noun

sentiment m (plural sentiments)
* 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: /ˌsɛn.tiˈmɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: sen‧ti‧ment
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Noun

sentiment n (plural sentimenten)
* (countable, uncountable) sentiment

#### Derived terms

* sentimenteel

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: sentiment
* → Indonesian: sentimen

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French sentement, from Latin sentimentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio (Paris):(file)

### Noun

sentiment m (plural sentiments)
* a sentiment, general thought, sense or feeling
* an opinion

#### Derived terms

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

#### Related terms

* sentir

### 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)
* sentiment (first sense)
* (economics) general opinion of financial experts about a particular market

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Latin sentimentum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [sentiˈmen]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

sentiment m (plural sentiments)
* feeling (emotion; impression)
* feeling, intuition
* sentiment, emotion

#### Related terms

* sentimental
* sentir

### Further reading

* Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 906.

## Romanian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sen.tiˈment/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

sentiment n (plural sentimente)
* sentiment, thought, sense, feeling
    Synonyms: simțire, (dated) simțământ
* belief, opinion
    Synonyms: credință, opinie, convingere