Definition of sympathy

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

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Fellow-feeling :: Fellow-feeling (n.) Sympathy; a like feeling.
Republicanism :: Republicanism (n.) Attachment to, or political sympathy for, a republican form of government..
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..
Fraternize :: Fraternize (v. t.) To bring into fellowship or brotherly sympathy.
Languish :: Languish (v. i.) To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy..
Unsympathy :: Unsympathy (n.) Absence or lack of sympathy.
Communicate :: Communicate (v. i.) To give alms, sympathy, or aid..
Piteous :: Piteous (a.) Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender..
Condolence :: Condolence (n.) Expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief.
Commune :: Commune (v. i.) To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
Sympathetic :: Sympathetic (a.) Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing.
Condole :: Condole (v. i.) To express sympathetic sorrow; to grieve in sympathy; -- followed by with.
Fellowfeel :: Fellowfeel (v. t.) To share through sympathy; to participate in.
Consensual :: Consensual (v. i.) Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition; as, consensual motions..
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..
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..
Dispathy :: Dispathy (n.) Lack of sympathy; want of passion; apathy.
Sympathetic :: Sympathetic (a.) Produced by sympathy; -- applied particularly to symptoms or affections. See Sympathy.
Sympetalous :: Sympathy (n.) Similarity of function, use office, or the like..
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..
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