Definition of sympathy

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Sympathy (n.) A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron..

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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..
Sympathetic :: Sympathetic (a.) Produced by sympathy; -- applied particularly to symptoms or affections. See Sympathy.
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..
Sensibility :: Sensibility (n.) The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; -- often used in the plural..
Dissympathy :: Dissympathy (n.) Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference.
Languish :: Languish (v. i.) To assume an expression of weariness or tender grief, appealing for sympathy..
Communicate :: Communicate (v. i.) To give alms, sympathy, or aid..
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..
Sympathetic :: Sympathetic (a.) Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy..
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..
Piteous :: Piteous (a.) Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case..
Unkind :: Unkind (a.) Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful..
Immovable :: Immovable (a.) Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling or by sympathy; unimpressible; impassive.
Commune :: Commune (v. i.) To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
Unsympathy :: Unsympathy (n.) Absence or lack of sympathy.
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..
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.
Republicanism :: Republicanism (n.) Attachment to, or political sympathy for, a republican form of government..
Tender :: Tender (superl.) Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain..
Associable :: Associable (a.) Liable to be affected by sympathy with other parts; -- said of organs, nerves, muscles, etc..
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