| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | sen·ti·ment |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s n t -mnt |
| NOUN: | 1. A thought, view, or attitude, especially one based mainly on emotion instead of reason: An anti-American sentiment swept through the country. See synonyms at feeling. , opinion. 2a. Emotion; feeling: Different forms of music convey different kinds of sentiment. b. Tender or romantic feeling. c. Maudlin emotion; sentimentality. 3. The emotional import of a passage as distinct from its form of expression. 4. The expression of delicate and sensitive feeling, especially in art and literature. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English sentement, from Old French, from Medieval Latin sent mentum, from Latin sentre, to feel. See sent- in Appendix I.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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