Sympathy

Quick meaning: Sympathy is a noun meaning A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.

Meaning

A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.

More Meanings

1. Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.
2. An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• sympathies

Synonyms for sympathy

Depending on context, synonyms include compassion, pity, bowels, commiseration, empathy, mercy.

Antonyms for sympathy

Common opposites include apathy, antipathy, contempt, dissympathy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include understanding, sympathetic, condolences, compassionate, condolence, compassion.

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