Thesaurus: sympathy

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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; feeling">fellow-feeling.
2. 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.
3. n. Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. n. A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron.
7. n. Similarity of function, use office, or the like.
8. n. an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
9. n. sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)
10. n. a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other
11. n:100 n. an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion n. sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish) n. a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other