sentiment
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sentiment/ˈsentɪmənt/
▶noun
- 1 a view, opinion, or feeling.
■ general feeling or opinion.
- 2 exaggerated and self-indulgent feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.
– origin ME (in the senses ‘personal experience’ and ‘physical feeling, sensation’): from OFr. sentement, from med. L. sentimentum, from L. sentire ‘feel’.
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