Lexic.us

Definition of Sympathy

1. Noun. An inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion. "I knew I could count on his understanding"

2. Noun. Sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish).

3. Noun. A relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other. "The two of them were in close sympathy"

Definition of Sympathy

1. 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.

2. n. The reciprocal influence exercised by organs or parts on one another, as shown in the effects of a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain.

Definition of Sympathy

1. a feeling of compassion for another's suffering [n -THIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sympathy

sympathise sympathised sympathiser sympathises sympathising sympathize sympathized sympathizer sympathizers sympathizes

sympathize with sympathizing sympatholytic sympatholytics sympathomimetic sympathy (current term) sympathy card sympathy strike sympatico sympatric

sympatrically sympatries sympatry sympetalies sympetalous sympetaly Symphalangus Symphalangus syndactylus symphile symphiles

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