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.
Sentimentality(n.) The quality or state of being sentimental.
Sentimentalize(v. i.) To think or act in a sentimental manner, or like a sentimentalist; to affect exquisite sensibility.
Sentimentalize(v. t.) To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject.
Sentimentally(adv.) In a sentimental manner.
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