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.