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Sentiment vs Sentimental - What's the difference?

sentiment | sentimental |

As a noun sentiment

is a general thought, feeling, or sense.

As an adjective sentimental is

characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion.

sentiment

English

Noun

  • A general thought, feeling, or sense.
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  • (label) Feelings, especially tender feelings, as apart from reason or judgment.
  • (label) Gentle or tender feelings, sometimes of a weak or foolish kind.
  • sentimental

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion
  • derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment
  • romantic
  • Derived terms

    * sentimentalism * sentimentality * sentimentally

    Quotations

    * 1885 : , *: Are you in sentimental mood? *: I'll sigh with you. * 1944 : , *: Gonna take a Sentimental Journey, *: Gonna set my heart at ease. *: Gonna make a Sentimental Journey, *: to renew old memories.

    Anagrams

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