sentiment

Other forms of sentiment

plural

sentiments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sentiment

What does sentiment mean?

sentiment means "tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sentiment?

sentiment has 3 syllables: sen-ti-ment. The stress falls on "sen". In IPA it is /ˈsɛntəmənt/.

What is another word for sentiment?

Close synonyms include opinion, persuasion, view, thought. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sentiment a common word?

sentiment is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.