sentiment
Usage
What are other ways to say sentiment?
The noun sentiment refers to a mixture of thought and feeling, especially refined or tender feeling: Recollections are often colored by sentiment. Feeling is a general term for a subjective point of view as well as for specific sensations: to be guided by feeling rather than by facts; a feeling of sadness, of rejoicing. Emotion is applied to an intensified feeling: agitated by emotion. Passion is strong or violent emotion, often so powerful that it takes over the mind or judgment: stirred to a passion of anger.
Example Sentences
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The return on the S&P 500 isn’t based on picking winners or ascertaining market sentiment.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
The overnight drop in oil prices has “eased inflation fears, lifted market sentiment and triggered a broad rally across equities and bonds,” the analysts added.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
It’s worth noting that sentiment as a whole is down, falling to a reading of 88 in the Jefferies poll, down from 94 at the end of February and 100 in the year-ago period.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
Analysts, including Blake Anderson, found that the K-shaped sentiment had been easing, from around Christmas through February, just before the start of the war.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
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.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing sentiment
"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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English Words Derived from French, List 1
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Common Senses: Sent, Sens ("Feel")
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