noun
Etymology: French or Medieval Latin; French, from Medieval Latin sentimentum, 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 sentimentality,
3. an idea colored by emotion, the emotional significance of a passage or expression as distinguished from its verb al context, see: feeling