sentiment
Usage
What are other ways to say sentiment?
The noun sentiment refers to a mixture of thought and feeling, especially refined or tender feeling: Recollections are often colored by sentiment. Feeling is a general term for a subjective point of view as well as for specific sensations: to be guided by feeling rather than by facts; a feeling of sadness, of rejoicing. Emotion is applied to an intensified feeling: agitated by emotion. Passion is strong or violent emotion, often so powerful that it takes over the mind or judgment: stirred to a passion of anger.
Example Sentences
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That’s lopped several dollars from global oil prices, produced an easing in Treasury bond yields, and stoked risk appetite—tied in large part to the improving AI sentiment.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
The broad categories measured by Snider and five fellow analysts were share prices, trading activity, investor sentiment and corporate sentiment.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
That sentiment resonated with 42-year-old Antonio Rivera, a Bay Area local who recalled the excitement he felt as a child in Jalisco watching the 1986 World Cup, which Mexico hosted.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
The move marks the latest effort by Asian authorities to defend their currencies as the conflict in the Middle East fuels risk-off sentiment, boosting the dollar at the expense of emerging-market currencies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
It was a sentiment he repeated to the other reporters who came to visit.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Vocabulary lists containing sentiment
"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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English Words Derived from French, List 1
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Common Senses: Sent, Sens ("Feel")
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