Sentiment

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Sentiment can refer to:

• feelings and emotions

• the literary device sentimentality, 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

• an eighteenth century literary genre called the sentimental novel

• market sentiment: optimism or pessimism in financial and commodity markets

• sentiment analysis: automatic detection of opinions embodied in text or speech

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