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sentiment

sentiment

23 4.2
The feeling shown in writing, like positive or negative
  • noun
  • /ˈsɛntɪmənt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : sentimiento
  • The survey captured public sentiment about climate change, revealing widespread concern among participants.
  • consumer sentiment
  • sentiment index
  • sentiment measures

But if we get that insight through an image analysis, so a hill would garner a negative sentiment.

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Examples

  • Our results strongly suggest that sentiment indicators are important in explaining real estate price changes.

    Academic text (2016)
  • That is a real positive sentiment.

  • Taking into account these findings from the research on consumer sentiment, we focus on the real estate market.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Social and political scientists usually attempt to gauge voter sentiment by conducting a survey.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Teacher candidates must be prepared to utilize technology in instruction as public sentiment calls for educational improvement.

    Academic text (2004)
  • They're trying to interpret the sentiments and see if the stock prices are moving based on all of that data.

  • President Obama may have been influenced by this popular sentiment in adopting a friendlier posture toward the Netanyahu government.

    Academic text (2013)
  • And I'm going to show you a brief Super Bowl ad that I think illustrates well the type of sentiment I'm talking about that's quite prevalent now.

  • A recent study analyzed consumer sentiment to understand purchasing behaviors during the holiday season.

  • Researchers use sentiment analysis to determine how people feel about different brands based on their social media posts.

Synonyms

feeling
vssentiment
267 1.4

The mood or atmosphere in a place

is the emotional tone in text measured as positive negative or neutral
climate
vssentiment
211 3.8

The general feeling or attitude in a place at a certain time

is used for emotional tone in text measured as positive negative or neutral
affect
vssentiment
  • Specialized
14 9.5

The way a person shows feelings on their face or in their voice

is about expressed attitude in text measured as positive negative or neutral
polarity
vssentiment
  • Specialized
1 6.6

How positive, negative, or neutral a text is

is broader and covers overall emotional tone as well as orientation

Antonyms

46 5.3

Making decisions based on facts, not personal feelings

22 4.4

Not supporting either side in a conflict or argument

Compounds

8.9

A feeling that is against one's country

Early support for violent, extreme right-wing ideas and leaders

Surface Forms

sentiment singular
sentiments plural

Morphology

sentiment = sent + ment

The technical/analytical sense is historically related to 'feeling' + '-ment', but because 'sent-' is not an independent English word, the computational meaning is not transparently derived from the parts for typical learners.

Etymology

Sentiment comes from the Latin root sentire, 'to feel', and keeps the idea of inner feeling. So in data work, sentiment means the emotional tone or 'feeling' in a piece of text that computer programs try to measure.