Sentiment

Sentiment can refer to activity of five material senses (hearing, sight, touch, smell, and taste) mistaking them as transcendental:

• Feelings and emotions

• Sentimentality, the literary device which is used to induce an emotional response disproportionate to the situation, and thus to substitute heightened and generally unthinking feeling for normal ethical and intellectual judgment

• Sentimental novel, an eighteenth-century literary genre

• Market sentiment, optimism or pessimism in financial and commodity markets

• Sentiment analysis, automatic detection of opinions embodied in text

• News sentiment, automatic detection of opinions embodied in news