Feeling about male attitude (9)
I believe the answer is:
sentiment
'attitude' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'feeling about male' is the wordplay.
'feeling' becomes 'sentient' ('sentient' can be a synonym of 'feeling'**).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'male' becomes 'm' (common abbreviation).
'sentient' enclosing 'm' is 'SENTIMENT'.
(Other definitions for sentiment that I've seen before include "Emotional feeling" , "Slush" , "Tender or romantic emotion" , "View, opinion, feeling" , "General feeling" .)