sentiment

sentiment
\ \ [17] Sentiment comes via Old French sentiment from medieval Latin sentīmentumfeeling’, a derivative of Latin sentīrefeel’ (from which English gets sensation, sense, sentence, etc). It originally meant ‘feeling’ and ‘opinion’ (the former now defunct, the latter surviving with a somewhat old-fashioned air in such expressions as ‘My sentiments exactly!’).
\ \ The sense ‘(excessively) refined feeling’ did not emerge until the mid-18th century.
\ \ Cf.SENSE

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