Definition of sympathy

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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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Sympathy :: Sympathy (n.) Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion.
Sympetalous :: Sympathy (n.) Similarity of function, use office, or the like..
Communion :: Communion (n.) Intercourse between two or more persons; esp., intimate association and intercourse implying sympathy and confidence; interchange of thoughts, purposes, etc.; agreement; fellowship; as, the communion of saints..
Sympathetic :: Sympathetic (a.) Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing.
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..
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..
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..
Associable :: Associable (a.) Liable to be affected by sympathy with other parts; -- said of organs, nerves, muscles, etc..
Communicate :: Communicate (v. i.) To give alms, sympathy, or aid..
Dissympathy :: Dissympathy (n.) Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference.
Fraternize :: Fraternize (v. t.) To bring into fellowship or brotherly sympathy.
Dryly :: Dryly (adv.) In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.
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..
Sympathy :: 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..
Unsympathy :: Unsympathy (n.) Absence or lack of sympathy.
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.
Impenetrable :: Impenetrable (a.) Inaccessible, as to knowledge, reason, sympathy, etc.; unimpressible; not to be moved by arguments or motives; as, an impenetrable mind, or heart..
Somnipathy :: Somnipathy (n.) Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like..
Pity :: Pity (v. t.) To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering..
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