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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Adamolekun rolled out a new hospitality program to boost customer sentiment.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
The pure-play stocks—the shares of companies that concentrate their efforts wholly on quantum computing—trade mostly on sentiment, since none of the companies have yet to turn a profit.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
Still, Cohen and his team at BofA Global Research see more upside to the dollar, noting that negative sentiment toward the greenback feels stretched.
From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026
It’s a sentiment that sums up much of the spirit of this issue, which looks at art as a sport and sport as an art.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
Or they can be in negative sentiment override, so that even a relatively neutral thing that a partner says gets perceived as negative.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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