Definition of: sentiment

(sen′tə·mənt) noun
1. Noble, tender, or artistic feeling, or susceptibility to such feeling; sensibility; also, its verbal expression.
2. A mental attitude or response to a person, object, or idea conditioned entirely by feeling instead of reason; loosely, an exaggerated emotional reaction.
3. Idealistic, personal, or esthetic reaction as distinguished from intellectual or practical.
4. An opinion or judgment; thought as distinguished from its expression: often in the plural.
5. An expressive thought or idea dressed in appropriate language, as a toast aptly uttered. See synonyms under FEELING, IDEA. [<OF sentement <Med. L sentimentum <L sentire feel]