Definition of sympathy

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

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Somnipathy :: Somnipathy (n.) Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like..
Condolence :: Condolence (n.) Expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief.
Sympetalous :: Sympathy (n.) Similarity of function, use office, or the like..
Extend :: Extend (v. t.) To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply; as, to extend sympathy to the suffering..
Sympathetic :: Sympathetic (a.) Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing.
Tender :: Tender (superl.) Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain..
Piteous :: Piteous (a.) Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender..
Consensual :: Consensual (v. i.) Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition; as, consensual motions..
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.
Fellow-feeling :: Fellow-feeling (n.) Sympathy; a like feeling.
Aloof :: Aloof (adv.) Without sympathy; unfavorably.
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.
Communicate :: Communicate (v. i.) To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.
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..
Sympathetic :: Sympathetic (a.) Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy..
Sympathy :: Sympathy (n.) A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron..
Republicanism :: Republicanism (n.) Attachment to, or political sympathy for, a republican form of government..
Unkind :: Unkind (a.) Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful..
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..
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