sentiment

/ˈsɛntəmənt/

/ˈsɛntɪmɪnt/

Other forms: sentiments

Your opinion that most comedies are terrible and that you'd rather watch any other kind of movie could be described as your sentiment, or your attitude, about films.

Sentiment means a view or opinion, but it can also mean an emotion. Maybe you prefer tragic movies because you enjoy the sentiment of sadness. This meaning of sentiment is taken to an extreme in yet another version of the word, meaning something like "overdone, exaggerated feelings, especially of sadness or nostalgia." An overly soppy tragedy is a good example of this kind of sentiment; it's the kind of film that might make you cringe instead of cry.

Definitions of sentiment

1. noun

   a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
   synonyms: opinion, persuasion, reckoning, thought, view

   types:

   idea

   a personal view

   judgement, judgment, mind

   an opinion formed by judging something

   eyes

   opinion or judgment

   parti pris, preconceived idea, preconceived notion, preconceived opinion, preconception, prepossession

   an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence

   pole

   one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions

   political sympathies, politics

   the opinion you hold with respect to political questions

   conclusion, decision, determination, verdict

   a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration

   type of:

   belief

   any cognitive content held as true
2. noun

   tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion
   types:

   sentimentality

   extravagant or affected feeling or emotion

   razbliuto

   the sentimental feeling you have about someone you once loved but no longer do

   bathos, mawkishness

   insincere pathos

   type of:

   feeling

   the experiencing of affective and emotional states