Definition of sympathy

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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..

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Italianism :: Italianism (n.) Attachment to, or sympathy for, Italy..
Sympathetic :: Sympathetic (a.) Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy..
Dispathy :: Dispathy (n.) Lack of sympathy; want of passion; apathy.
Sympetalous :: Sympathy (n.) Similarity of function, use office, or the like..
Dissympathy :: Dissympathy (n.) Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference.
Associable :: Associable (a.) Liable to be affected by sympathy with other parts; -- said of organs, nerves, muscles, etc..
Passive :: Passive (a.) Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission..
Unsympathy :: Unsympathy (n.) Absence or lack of sympathy.
Neighbor :: Neighbor (n.) One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
Sympathy :: Sympathy (n.) A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron..
Sympathy :: Sympathy (n.) Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling..
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..
Dryly :: Dryly (adv.) In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.
Fellow-feeling :: Fellow-feeling (n.) Sympathy; a like feeling.
Mediaevalist :: Mediaevalist (n.) One who has a taste for, or is versed in, the history of the Middle Ages; one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages..
Piteous :: Piteous (a.) Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender..
Languish :: Languish (v. i.) To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy..
Immovable :: Immovable (a.) Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling or by sympathy; unimpressible; impassive.
Condole :: Condole (v. i.) To express sympathetic sorrow; to grieve in sympathy; -- followed by with.
Republicanism :: Republicanism (n.) Attachment to, or political sympathy for, a republican form of government..
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