Looking for different words where “personal” means personal value?
A friend offers you money for an a necklace but you refuse to sell because you obtained the necklace from a friend who died.
You now consider your necklace to have “personal” value (value that you can’t put a price tag on).
What
is a better word than personal to describe the value of a given object?
It lacks the true attachment to the item (it came from a special person).
The phrase that would describe this precisely is sentimental value or sentimental value.
Merriam Webster defines Sentimental Value as:
- importance to someone because of a connection with a happy time of life, a special person, etc. The image has sentimental value for me.
To me this means that there’s a subjective value to it based more on memory of past experiences rather than any objective
value.
