Other forms: sentiments
A sentiment is a view held, or a feeling expressed. A noble sentiment, market sentiment, echo the sentiment.
In finance sentiment is measured and traded on — market sentiment means what investors feel rather than what the numbers say, and the gap between the two is where money is made and lost. Sentimental is a criticism where sentiment is neutral.
1nounsentimentA view held, or a feeling expressed.
“Public sentiment turned against the war as the years went on.”
sentiment is a view or feeling.
Old French sentement comes from Latin sentire, to feel. Sense, sentence and consent are relatives.
Proto-Indo-European
*sent-
Latin
sentimentum
Old French
sentement
English, today
sentiment
From Old French sentement, from Latin sentimentum. From Old French sentement, from Latin sentimentum.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA