Australian English Meaning of sympathy

sympathy

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Definitions and Meaning of sympathy in English

Wordnet

sympathy (n)

an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion

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

Webster

sympathy (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.

The influence of a certain psychological state in one person in producing a like state in another.

FAQs About the word sympathy

sympathy

an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion, sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish), a relation of a

Compassion,empathy,commiseration,feeling,kindness,Pity,regret,affinity,Altruism,benevolence

Callousness,Cruelty,heartlessness,indifference,Insensitivity,animosity,Antipathy,cold-heartedness,Dislike,Hard-heartedness

sympathomimetic => Sympathomimetic, sympathizer => sympathiser, sympathize with => sympathise with, sympathize => sympathize, sympathiser => sympathiser,