sympathy

Definition of sympathy in English English dictionary: The ability to share the feelings of another; empathy; A mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition
'Sympathy' likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.; A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion; {n} a fellow-felling, compassion; If you have sympathy for someone who is in a bad situation, you are sorry for them, and show this in the way you behave towards them. I have had very little help from doctors and no sympathy whatsoever I wanted to express my sympathies on your resignation; That relation which exists between different persons by which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that of himself; If you take some action in sympathy with someone else, you do it in order to show that you support them. Milne resigned in sympathy because of the way Donald had been treated; 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; 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; Similarity of function, use office, or the like; Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion; A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron; 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; 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; a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other; "the two of them were in close sympathy"; sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish); The influence of a certain psychological state in one person in producing a like state in another; A mutual relationship between organs such that a condition of one part causes an effect in the other; If you have sympathy with someone's ideas or opinions, you agree with them. I have some sympathy with this point of view Lithuania still commands considerable international sympathy for its cause She has frequently expressed Republican sympathies; an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion; "his sympathies were always with the underdog"; "I knew I could count on his understanding"; sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish) a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other; "the two of them were in close sympathy; A mutual relationship between people such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition; {i} affinity, understanding; compassion, pity, concern, commiseration, empathy; approval; 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; consent; understanding
sympathy card: A greeting card sent to family members of one who has died to express regret
sympathy card: a card expressing sympathy
sympathy strike: a strike in support of other workers who are on strike; a strike not resulting from direct grievances against the workers' employer
sympathy strike: work stoppage performed in order to support another group, strike which brings favor and support from others
sympathy strike: A strike by a body of workers for the purpose of supporting a cause or another group of strikers
in sympathy with: out of compassion for, out of concern for, in commiseration with
letter of sympathy: letter expressing one's sorrow for the grief of another person, letter of compassion
message of sympathy: message that expresses shared sorrow
sympathies: Plural of sympathy
with sympathy: with congeniality, with warmth

sympathy

Hyphenation

sym·pa·thy

Turkish pronunciation

sîmpıthi

Synonyms

accord, affinity, agreement, alliance, attraction, benignancy, close relation, commiseration, compassion, concord, congeniality, connection, correspondence, empathy, feelings

Antonyms

disdain, incompatibility, indifference, callousness, mercilessness

Pronunciation

/ˈsəmpəᴛʜē/ /ˈsɪmpəθiː/

Etymology

[ sim-p&-thE ] (noun.) 1579. From Middle French sympathie from Late Latin sympathia from Ancient Greek συμπάθεια (sumpatheia) from σύν (sun, “with, together”) + πάθος (pathos, “suffering”).