Definition of sympathy

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Sympathy (n.) Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion.

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Sympetalous :: Sympathy (n.) Similarity of function, use office, or the like..
Aloof :: Aloof (adv.) Without sympathy; unfavorably.
Pity :: Pity (n.) A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.
Piteous :: Piteous (a.) Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender..
Neighbor :: Neighbor (n.) One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
Sympathy :: Sympathy (n.) The reciprocal influence exercised by the various organs or parts of the body on one another, as manifested in the transmission of a disease by unknown means from one organ to another quite remote, or in the influence exerted by a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain..
Dryly :: Dryly (adv.) In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.
Sympathetic :: Sympathetic (a.) Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy..
Sympathy :: Sympathy (n.) An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between them..
Genial :: Genial (a.) Contributing to, and sympathizing with, the enjoyment of life; sympathetically cheerful and cheering; jovial and inspiring joy or happiness; exciting pleasure and sympathy; enlivening; kindly; as, she was of a cheerful and genial disposition..
Sympathy :: Sympathy (n.) A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron..
Dispathy :: Dispathy (n.) Lack of sympathy; want of passion; apathy.
Poor :: Poor (superl.) Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt..
Communicate :: Communicate (v. i.) To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.
Relentless :: Relentless (a.) Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism..
Pity :: Pity (v. t.) To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering..
Fellowfeel :: Fellowfeel (v. t.) To share through sympathy; to participate in.
Unsympathy :: Unsympathy (n.) Absence or lack of sympathy.
Sympathy :: Sympathy (n.) That relation which exists between different persons by which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that of himself. This is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another person suffering with hysteria..
Somnipathy :: Somnipathy (n.) Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like..
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