sympathy
IPA: sˈɪmpʌθi
noun
- A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.
- (in the plural) The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
- The ability to share the feelings of another.
- Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.
- (in the plural) Support in the form of shared feelings or opinions.
- Feeling of loyalty; tendency towards, agreement with or approval of an opinion or aim; a favorable attitude.
- An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
- Mutual or parallel susceptibility or a condition brought about by it.
- (art) Artistic harmony, as of shape or colour in a painting.
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Examples of "sympathy" in Sentences
- Thanks for the expressions of sympathy.
- He gained the sympathy of the Serbian people.
- The man cut off the limb to solicit sympathy.
- Did the man cut off the limb to solicit sympathy
- My main sympathy is for the woman and children of Sodom.
- I'm certainly in sympathy with the spirit of the version.
- Each has the sympathy of the reader and that of the author.
- Sympathy disappears in the face of the struggle for survival.
- I have the unpopular feeling of sympathy for the perpetrators.
- Antipathy is dislike for something or somebody, the opposite of sympathy.
- Here, he was most in sympathy with the Georgian architecture of the county.
- Some play on the image of the troubled and traumatized veteran, even using it to win sympathy from a judge or jury.
- Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.
- It is my belief that she is trying to gain sympathy from the Republican conservative base, as the "poor Sarah, everyone picks on me."
- She is filled with curiosity, which she calls sympathy with the simple, stern religion; and this Müller, who goes about preaching, is now at Tübingen.
- In 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments, published in 1759, Adam Smith boldly recast the question of virtue in terms of what we now call empathy but which he called sympathy.
- The moment in the story where their sympathy is aroused is the swallowing of the kids, because the children do realize the possibility of being disposed of in the mother's absence.
- Perhaps he liked it; — but any man endowed with that power of appreciation which we call sympathy, would have felt it to be as cold as though it had come from a figure on a glass window.
- To paraphrase his satyrical entry at the Reagan Wing, Doug alleges that Mike! faked or made up this DUI or at least preemptively announced it as a devious ploy to gain sympathy from the electorate.
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