These terms describe how Sentimentary measures expressed sentiment, what people are saying in public conversations.
Apathetic
A sentiment label for samples where the score lands near zero but sentiment-bearing words are present. The language is resigned or fence-sitting — the person has disengaged from the topic without committing to a clear positive or negative position. Shown in blue on the sentiment core. Distinct from guarded: apathetic means the person has checked out; guarded means they’re still thinking.
Content source
Where an opinion was found (e.g., Reddit). Content sources are the platforms and communities whose public conversations Sentimentary samples.
Core term
The word displayed at the center of the sentiment core. It’s the strongest sentiment signal from all the samples in a search — the one word that best captures how people feel.
Curious
The free level of Sentimentary. Anyone can run searches without an account. to create a free account and save your search history.
EDA
(Exploratory Data Analysis) The summary Sentimentary computes from scored samples: how many are positive vs negative, how intense the feelings are, and which single word best captures the overall mood (the core term).
Grab
One quote taken from one public page. Sentimentary grabs the strongest opinion from each page it reads. Multiple grabs across different pages make up a search.
Guarded
A sentiment label for samples with a weak lean in either direction, or balanced strong feelings that haven’t settled on one side. The person has an opinion but is undecided or measured — still weighing the options rather than disengaged. Shown in yellow on the sentiment core. Distinct from apathetic: guarded means the person is still weighing; apathetic means they’ve stopped weighing.
Negative
A sentiment label for samples where the expressed opinion is net negative. Shown in red on the sentiment core.
Positive
A sentiment label for samples where the expressed opinion is net positive. Shown in green on the sentiment core.
Sample
A single scored quote extracted from a public conversation. Each sample includes the quote text, a sentiment label, the source link, and the date it was retrieved.
Search
A single run of the sentiment engine: you enter a question, Sentimentary grabs and scores samples from public conversations, and returns the sentiment core and sample list. Free and unlimited.
Sentiment core
The circular visualization at the center of every search result. It shows the overall emotional distribution of the samples as colored segments and displays the strongest sentiment word (the core term) in the center. Green means positive, red means negative, yellow means guarded, blue means apathetic. Also called the core visualizer.
Sentiment engine
The proprietary system that reads each sample and assigns a polarity label and sentiment score. It analyzes language patterns — word choice, phrasing, and context — to determine whether a quote is positive, negative, guarded, or apathetic.
Snapshot
A saved search tied to a specific query that accumulates new samples each time it’s searched, building a growing research record. Snapshots are bookmarkable, mergeable, and exportable for professional work. With a free account, the re-run button previews the snapshot concept — run the same question again to see how the conversation has shifted.
Subject type
How Sentimentary interprets your topic. Brand names (like “Nike”) get precision — results focused on reviews and discussions about that specific thing. General topics (like “running shoes”) get broader coverage — related terms and synonyms are included so you see the wider conversation.
