sym|pa|thy

sym|pa|thy
sym|pa|thy «SIHM puh thee», noun, plural -thies.
1. a sharing of another's sorrow or trouble: »

We feel sympathy for a person who is ill. Sympathy…enables one to put himself in the place of his fellows and to understand them (Emory S. Bogardus). The dedicated doctor knows that sympathy and understanding are just as important as scientific knowledge (New York Times).

 SYNONYM(S): compassion, commiseration. See syn. under pity. (Cf. ↑pity)
2. the condition or fact of having the same feeling; agreement in feeling: »

The sympathy between the twins was so great that they smiled or cried at the same things.

SYNONYM(S): harmony, affinity.
3. agreement; favor; approval: »

He is in sympathy with my plan.

4. a) an affinity between certain things, whereby they are similar or correspondingly affected by the same influence. b) an action or response induced by such a relationship. c) Physiology. a relation between parts or organs such that a disorder or any condition in one produces an effect, often a similar one, on the other. d) Physics. a relation between two vibratile bodies such that when one is thrown into vibration it transmits its vibration to the other through air or some other medium.
╂[< Latin sympathīa < Greek sympátheia, or sympath having a fellow feeling < syn- together + páthos a feeling]

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