different between sentiment vs eagerness

English

Etymology

From Old French sentement, from Latin sentimentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n.t?.m?nt/

Noun

sentiment (countable and uncountable, plural sentiments)

1. A general thought, feeling, or sense.

   The sentiment emerged that we were acting too soon.
2. (uncountable) Feelings, especially tender feelings, as apart from reason or judgment, or of a weak or foolish kind.

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin sentimentum; sentir +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /s?n.ti?ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /s?n.ti?men/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /sen.ti?ment/

Noun

sentiment m (plural sentiments)

1. emotion; feeling; sentiment

Related terms

• sentimental
• sentimentalisme

See also

• emoció

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French sentiment, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French sentement, from Latin sentimentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n.ti?m?nt/
• Hyphenation: sen?ti?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

sentiment n (plural sentimenten)

1. (countable, uncountable) sentiment

Derived terms

• sentimenteel

Descendants

• Afrikaans: sentiment
• ? Indonesian: sentimen

French

Etymology

From Old French sentement, from Latin sentimentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.ti.m??/

Noun

sentiment m (plural sentiments)

1. A sentiment, general thought, sense or feeling.
2. An opinion.

Related terms

• sentir

Further reading

• “sentiment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin sentimentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [senti?men]

Noun

sentiment m (plural sentiments)

1. feeling (emotion; impression)
2. feeling, intuition
3. sentiment, emotion

Related terms

• sentimental
• sentir

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, ?ISBN, page 906.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sentiment, Latin sentimentum. Cf. also sim??mânt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sen.ti?ment/

Noun

sentiment n (plural sentimente)

1. sentiment, thought, sense, feeling

   Synonyms: sim?ire, (dated) sim??mânt

2. belief, opinion

   Synonyms: credin??, opinie, convingere

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• eagreness (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English egernesse, egrenesse; equivalent to eager +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?i??n?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i???n?s/
• Hyphenation: ea?ger?ness

Noun

eagerness (usually uncountable, plural eagernesses)

1. The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire.
   • 1909: Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

     The things he had to tell about...were enough to make you almost tremble with excitement, when you heard all the intimate details from an animal charmer and realized with what thrilling eagerness and anxiety the whole busy underworld was working.

2. (obsolete) Tartness; sourness

Translations

Anagrams

• Gerasenes, eagreness, green seas, sea greens