sympathy.
A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.
Meaning & usage
A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.
A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another. The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another. The ability to share the feelings of another.
Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.
Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling. Support in the form of shared feelings or opinions.
Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling. Feeling of loyalty; tendency towards, agreement with or approval of an opinion or aim; a favorable attitude.
Many people in Hollywood were blacklisted merely because they were suspected of Communist sympathies.
An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition. Mutual or parallel susceptibility or a condition brought about by it.
An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition. Artistic harmony, as of shape or colour in a painting.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Middle French sympathie, from Late Latin sympathīa (“feeling in common”), from Ancient Greek σῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ (sŭmpắtheiă, “fellow feeling”), from σῠμπᾰθής (sŭmpăthḗs, “affected by like feelings; exerting mutual influence, interacting”) + -ῐᾰ (-ĭă, “-y”, nominal suffix). Equivalent to sym- (“acting or considered together”) + -pathy (“feeling”).
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