Definition of sympathy

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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..

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Somnipathy :: Somnipathy (n.) Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like..
Dryly :: Dryly (adv.) In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.
Condole :: Condole (v. i.) To express sympathetic sorrow; to grieve in sympathy; -- followed by with.
Sensibility :: Sensibility (n.) The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; -- often used in the plural..
Fellow-feeling :: Fellow-feeling (n.) Sympathy; a like feeling.
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..
Fraternize :: Fraternize (v. t.) To bring into fellowship or brotherly sympathy.
Unsympathy :: Unsympathy (n.) Absence or lack of sympathy.
Immovable :: Immovable (a.) Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling or by sympathy; unimpressible; impassive.
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..
Languish :: Languish (v. i.) To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy..
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..
Dispathy :: Dispathy (n.) Lack of sympathy; want of passion; apathy.
Fellowfeel :: Fellowfeel (v. t.) To share through sympathy; to participate in.
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..
Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire..
Republicanism :: Republicanism (n.) Attachment to, or political sympathy for, a republican form of government..
Consent :: Consent (n.) Sympathy. See Sympathy, 4..
Commune :: Commune (v. i.) To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
Dissympathy :: Dissympathy (n.) Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference.
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