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sentiment
English
Etymology
From Old French sentement, from Latin sentimentum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?n.t?.m?nt/
Noun
sentiment (countable and uncountable, plural sentiments)
- A general thought, feeling, or sense.
- The sentiment emerged that we were acting too soon.
- (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)
- 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)
- (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)
- A sentiment, general thought, sense or feeling.
- 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)
- feeling (emotion; impression)
- feeling, intuition
- 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)
- sentiment, thought, sense, feeling
- Synonyms: sim?ire, (dated) sim??mânt
- belief, opinion
- Synonyms: credin??, opinie, convingere
Declension
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theory
English
Etymology
From Middle French théorie, from Late Latin the?ria, from Ancient Greek ?????? (the?ría, “contemplation, speculation, a looking at, things looked at”), from ?????? (the?ré?, “I look at, view, consider, examine”), from ?????? (the?rós, “spectator”), from ??? (théa, “view”) + ???? (horá?, “I see, look”) [i. e. ???? ???? (théan horá?, “see, look at a view; survey + genitive”)].
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /?????i/, /??i???i/, /????i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??i???i/, /????i/
- Rhymes: -??ri
Noun
theory (countable and uncountable, plural theories)
- A description of an event or system that is considered to be accurate.
- (obsolete) Mental conception; reflection, consideration. [16th-18th c.]
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, VII.19:
- As they encrease the hatred of vice in some, so doe they enlarge the theory of wickednesse in all.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, VII.19:
- (sciences) A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena and correctly predicts new facts or phenomena not previously observed, or which sets out the laws and principles of something known or observed; a hypothesis confirmed by observation, experiment etc. [from 17th c.]
- 1843, John Stuart Mill, ""A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, ..., Bk V, Ch 7:
- In its most proper acceptation, theory means the completed result of philosophical induction from experience.
- 2002, Duncan Steel, The Guardian, 23 May 2002:
- It was only when Einstein's theory of relativity was published in 1915 that physicists could show that Mercury's "anomaly" was actually because Newton's gravitational theory was incomplete.
- 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, p. 118:
- The world would need additional decades [...] before the Big Bang would begin to move from interesting idea to established theory.
- 2009, Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, Bantam, p. 10:
- Scientists and creationists are understanding the word "theory" in two very different senses. Evolution is a theory in the same sense as the heliocentric theory. In neither case should the word "only" be used, as in "only a theory".
- 1843, John Stuart Mill, ""A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, ..., Bk V, Ch 7:
- (uncountable) The underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to its practice. [from 17th c.]
- (mathematics) A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs. [from 18th c.]
- Knot theory classifies the mappings of a circle into 3-space.
- A hypothesis or conjecture. [from 18th c.]
- 2003, Sean Coughlan, The Guardian, 21 Jun 2003:
- The theory is that by stripping costs to the bone, they are able to offer ludicrously low fares.
- 2003, Sean Coughlan, The Guardian, 21 Jun 2003:
- (countable, logic) A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them; or, a set of statements which are deductively closed. Equivalently, a formal language plus a set of axioms (from which can then be derived theorems). The statements may be required to all be bound (i.e., to have no free variables).
- A theory is consistent if it has a model.
Usage notes
In scientific discourse, the sense “unproven conjecture” is discouraged (with hypothesis or conjecture preferred), due to unintentional ambiguity and intentional equivocation with the sense “well-developed statement or structure”.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:supposition
Hyponyms
Meronyms
- (in logic): axioms
Holonyms
- (in logic): formal system
Related terms
Translations
See also
- axiom
- postulate
- proposition
References
- theory at OneLook Dictionary Search
- theory in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "theory" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 316.
- theory in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Yother, thyreo-
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