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Sensitive about male emotion (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sentiment

'emotion' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'sensitive about male' is the wordplay.
'sensitive' becomes 'sentient' ('sentient' can be a synonym of 'sensitive'**).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'male' becomes 'm' (common abbreviation).
'sentient' enclosing 'm' is 'SENTIMENT'.

(Other definitions for sentiment that I've seen before include "Emotion, self-indulgent or insincere perhaps" , "Mawkishness" , "Tender feeling" , "View, opinion, feeling" , "General feeling" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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