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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Consensual :: Consensual (v. i.) Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition; as, consensual motions..
Fraternize :: Fraternize (v. t.) To bring into fellowship or brotherly sympathy.
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..
Fellow-feeling :: Fellow-feeling (n.) Sympathy; a like feeling.
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..
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..
Neighbor :: Neighbor (n.) One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
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.
Associate :: Associate (a.) Connected by habit or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions..
Italianism :: Italianism (n.) Attachment to, or sympathy for, Italy..
Dryly :: Dryly (adv.) In a dry manner; not succulently; without interest; without sympathy; coldly.
Communicate :: Communicate (v. i.) To give alms, sympathy, or aid..
Sympathetic :: Sympathetic (a.) Produced by sympathy; -- applied particularly to symptoms or affections. See Sympathy.
Extend :: Extend (v. t.) To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply; as, to extend sympathy to the suffering..
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..
Communicate :: Communicate (v. i.) To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.
Piteous :: Piteous (a.) Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case..
Sympathy :: Sympathy (n.) A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron..
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..
Dissympathy :: Dissympathy (n.) Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference.
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