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
- 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.