Definition of sympathy

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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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Condole :: Condole (v. i.) To express sympathetic sorrow; to grieve in sympathy; -- followed by with.
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..
Somnipathy :: Somnipathy (n.) Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like..
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..
Fellowfeel :: Fellowfeel (v. t.) To share through sympathy; to participate in.
Neighbor :: Neighbor (n.) One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
Piteous :: Piteous (a.) Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case..
Italianism :: Italianism (n.) Attachment to, or sympathy for, Italy..
Languish :: Languish (v. i.) To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy..
Impassible :: Impassible (a.) Incapable of suffering; inaccessible to harm or pain; not to be touched or moved to passion or sympathy; unfeeling, or not showing feeling; without sensation..
Republicanism :: Republicanism (n.) Attachment to, or political sympathy for, a republican form of government..
Sympetalous :: Sympathy (n.) Similarity of function, use office, or the like..
Unkind :: Unkind (a.) Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful..
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..
Fraternize :: Fraternize (v. t.) To bring into fellowship or brotherly sympathy.
Sympathetic :: Sympathetic (a.) Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing.
Dissympathy :: Dissympathy (n.) Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference.
Sympathetic :: Sympathetic (a.) Produced by sympathy; -- applied particularly to symptoms or affections. See Sympathy.
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..
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