sympathy

Definitions

1. A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.
   countable, uncountable
2. A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another
3. The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
   countable, in-plural, uncountable
4. The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune
5. The ability to share the feelings of another.
   countable, uncountable
6. The ability to share the feelings of another
7. Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling. Support in the form of shared feelings or opinions. Feeling of loyalty; tendency towards, agreement with or approval of an opinion or aim; a favorable attitude
8. Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.
   countable, uncountable
9. Support in the form of shared feelings or opinions
10. Support in the form of shared feelings or opinions.
    countable, in-plural, uncountable
11. Feeling of loyalty; tendency towards, agreement with or approval of an opinion or aim; a favorable attitude.
    countable, uncountable
12. An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
    countable, uncountable
13. Mutual or parallel susceptibility or a condition brought about by it.
    countable, uncountable
14. Artistic harmony, as of shape or colour in a painting.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

30 more languages

العربيةالعطفتعاطفضلععاطفةميل+ 2 more

Bosanskiblagonaklonostsaosećajsaučešćeблагонаклоностсаучешће+ 2 more

Catalàempatia

Češtinaempatiesoucitsoustrastsympatie+ 1 more

Ελληνικάσυμπάθεια

Esperantosimpatio

Suomiempatiamyötäeläminenmyötätuntoosanottosympaattisuussympatiaymmärtämys+ 4 more

Gàidhligco-fhaireachdainn

עבריתהבנה

हिन्दीदिलासासंवेदनासहानुभूतिहमदर्द+ 1 more

Hrvatskiblagonaklonostsaosećajsaučešćeблагонаклоностсаучешће+ 2 more

Magyaregyüttérzés

Bahasa Indonesiaempatipemahamansimpati

Italianoempatia

日本語きょうめい交感人心人情共感共鳴同情哀思いやり慈悲憐+ 8 more

한국어공감동정애도연민+ 1 more

Kurdîsempatî

Latinasympathia

മലയാളംഅനുകമ്പ

Polskiwspółczucie

Portuguêsempatia

Românăempatie

Русскийсочу́вствие

සිංහලකුලුණ

Shqipkeqardhje

Српскиblagonaklonostsaosećajsaučešćeблагонаклоностсаучешће+ 2 more

Svenskadeltagandeempatisympati

Türkçesempati

Українськаспівчуття

Tiếng Việtthiện cảmthông cảm

Examples

“If you want⟳ sympathy you’ll find⟳ it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis. Sympathy may pay⟳ well in the short term, but if you cash in on sympathy, it will take⟳ everything from you in the long run⟳.”

“And all told, Trump’s second term has actually led to the most sympathy for migrants on record⟳ in the 21st century, per Gallup. Fully 79% of Americans now say⟳ immigration is a “good thing,” compared with 64% last⟳ year.”

“While you'll probably have⟳ her sympathies if your condominium association wants to preapprove your storm door, you'll need⟳ to work⟳ harder for her support⟳ if your boss at the music megastore demands you grow⟳ a goatee to help⟳ lend⟳ the place⟳ some indie cred.”

“Oh vvhat a ſimpathie of vvoe is this, / As farre from helpe, as Lymbo is from bliſſe.”

“Many people in Hollywood were blacklisted merely because they were suspected of Communist sympathies.”

“He observed, also, the frequent sympathy of volcanic and terremotive action in remote districts of the earth's surface, thus showing how deeply seated must be the cause of these convulsions.”

“A peculiarity of were-animals is the sympathy that exists between their animal form⟳ and that of the human with whom it is connected.”

“The solution to coach riding defects, at least, seems to require⟳ much more co-operative practical experiment⟳ by all engineering departments to achieve⟳ better sympathy between the vehicle body, its undercarriage and the track on which it rides.”

“Sympathy likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.”

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