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Sentiment vs Zeal - What's the difference?

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Sentiment is a related term of zeal.


As nouns the difference between sentiment and zeal

is that sentiment is a general thought, feeling, or sense while zeal is the fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.

sentiment

English

Noun

  • A general thought, feeling, or sense.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
  • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
  • (label) Feelings, especially tender feelings, as apart from reason or judgment.
  • (label) Gentle or tender feelings, sometimes of a weak or foolish kind.
  • zeal

    English

    Noun

  • The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.
  • * Dryden
  • Zeal , the blind conductor of the will.
  • * Bible, Romans x. 2
  • I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
  • (obsolete) A zealot.
  • (Ben Jonson)

    Synonyms

    * (fervor) ardor, eagerness, enthusiasm, intensity, passion

    Antonyms

    * (fervor) apathy

    Derived terms

    () * zealot * zealotic * zealotical * zealotry * zealous * zealously * zealousness

    Anagrams

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