SENTIMENT

noun Etymology: French or Medieval Latin; French, from Medieval Latin ~um, from Latin sentire Date: 1639 1. an attitude, thought, or judgment prompted by feeling ; predilection , a specific view or notion ; opinion , 2. emotion , refined feeling ; delicate sensibility especially as expressed in a work of art, emotional idealism, a romantic or nostalgic feeling verging on ~ality, 3. an idea colored by emotion, the emotional significance of a passage or expression as distinguished from its verbal context, see: feeling