sentiment
Usage
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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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Further headlines that pull sentiment each way will likely persist.
From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026
“A change in sentiment could easily affect the global flow of investments into securities, including U.S. Treasuries,” Dimon says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
Further headlines that pull sentiment each way will likely persist.
From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026
This meant that the "second and third parties were seen as 'victims'," said Kaul, noting that the BNP and the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami ended up "reaping the benefits of anti-establishment sentiment" in the elections.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
If registering a nostalgic sentiment of affinity was Jefferson’s main intention, Madison suggested that could be done by leaking part of the message to mutual friends.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
