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sentiment

Pronunciation: /sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃/

“sentiment” is a French word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a sentiment, general thought, sense or feeling
  2. an opinion

In French

  1. Faculté que nous avons d’apprécier, de sentir directement certaines choses sans le secours du raisonnement, de l’observation ou de l’expérience.
  2. Quelqu’une des affections, des passions, des émotions; et généralement de tout phénomène de la vie affective.
  3. Disposition à être facilement ému, touché ou attendri.
  4. Action ou faculté de sentir, de recevoir des impressions.
  5. Opinion qu’on a de quelque chose; ce qu’on en pense; ce qu’on en pressent.
  6. Traces et odeurs laissées par un gibier.

Etymology

Inherited from Old French sentement, from Latin sentimentum.

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