| Sentiment |
a. |
A thought prompted by passion or feeling; a state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition prompting to action or expression. |
| Sentiment |
a. |
Hence, generally, a decision of the mind formed by deliberation or reasoning; thought; opinion; notion; judgment; as, to express one's sentiments on a subject. |
| Sentiment |
a. |
A sentence, or passage, considered as the expression of a thought; a maxim; a saying; a toast. |
| Sentiment |
a. |
Sensibility; feeling; tender susceptibility. |
| Sentimental |
a. |
Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic. |
| Sentimental |
a. |
Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender;
often in a reproachful sense. |
| Sentimental |
a. |
Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions. |
| Sentimentalism |
n. |
The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality. |
| Sentimentalist |
n. |
One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling. |
| Sentimentality |
n. |
The quality or state of being sentimental. |
| Sentimentalize |
v. t. |
To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject. |
| Sentimentalize |
v. i. |
To think or act in a sentimental manner, or like a sentimentalist; to affect exquisite sensibility. |
| Sentimentally |
adv. |
In a sentimental manner. |
