sentiment

Heart's quiet stance

Sentiment is feeling or emotion, especially as distinguished from reason or thought.

Public sentiment means collective opinion or attitude: The politician misjudged voter sentiment.

In finance, market sentiment describes investors' overall mood—bullish or bearish.

A sentiment can also be a thought expressed with feeling: Those are noble sentiments.

The word sometimes carries a whiff of excessive emotion, shading toward sentimentality.

emotion

feeling

Sensed inner state

  • affectionWarm emotional attachment
  • loveIntense fond attachment
  • hateIntense hostile aversion

joy · anger · fear · sadness · grief · passion · longing · empathy · sorrow · fondness

opinion

view

What's seen from somewhere

perspective · position · attitude · thought · impression · feeling · reaction · expression · conviction · judgment

atmosphere

mood

Prevailing emotional condition

climate · air · spirit · undercurrent · tenor · pulse · temperament · prevailing · collective · shift

instinct

gut

Digestive tract, or instinct

notion · inkling · impression · premonition · suspicion

nostalgia

wistfulness

Tender sadness for absence

homesickness · melancholy · fondness · remembrance · romanticism · idealization

Categories
Opposites
emotion vs. emotionlessness

sentimentindifference

Lack of interest

coldness · unfeelingness · insensitivity · apathy · detachment

feeling vs. reason

sentimentlogic

Science of valid reasoning

reason · rationality · intellect · analysis · calculation

subjective impression vs. objective fact

sentimentfact

Verifiable piece of information

truth · reality · evidence · data · hard facts

Phrases
Family

sentimental, sentiments, unsentimental, sentimentality, presentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentalist, sentimentally, sentimentalize

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