sentiment
noun
[ ˈsɛntɪm(ə)nt ]
• a view or opinion that is held or expressed.
• "I agree with your sentiments regarding the road bridge"
• exaggerated and self-indulgent feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.
• "many of the appeals rely on treacly sentiment"
Similar:
sentimentality,
mawkishness,
over-sentimentality,
emotionalism,
overemotionalism,
sentimentalism,
emotion,
sensibility,
finer feelings,
tender feelings,
tenderness,
softness,
soft-heartedness,
tender-heartedness,
tweeness,
schmaltz,
mush,
slush,
sob stuff,
slushiness,
sloppiness,
slop,
goo,
corn,
corniness,
hokum,
cheese,
soppiness,
sappiness,
hokeyness,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the senses ‘personal experience’ and ‘physical feeling, sensation’): from Old French sentement, from medieval Latin sentimentum, from Latin sentire ‘feel’.
