emotion or sentimentality, or an attitude, thought, or judgment prompted or coloured by feeling or emotion
(usu in pl) a specific view or opinion
We held similar sentiments on the matter
a feeling or attitude
They were elected on a wave of nationalistic sentiment
sensitive feeling; refined sensibility, esp as expressed in a work of art
indulgently romantic or nostalgic feeling
the underlying intended meaning of a communication as distinguished from its overt expression
The sentiment is admirable, though it is clumsily put
[Middle English via Old French from medieval Latin sentimentum, from Latin sentire to feel]