sympathy
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From Middle French sympathie from Late Latin sympathia from Ancient Greek συμπάθεια (sumpatheia) from σύν (sun), “‘with, together’”) + πάθος (pathos), “‘suffering’”).
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- IPA: /ˈsɪmpəθi/
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sympathy (plural sympathies)
- A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.
- The ability to share the feelings of another; empathy.
- (psychology) A mutual relationship between people such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
- (physiology) A mutual relationship between organs such that a condition of one part causes an effect in the other.
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- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
- Sympathy likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
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feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another
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ability to share the feelings of another; empathy
psychology: mutual relationship between people such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition
physiology: mutual relationship between organs such that a condition of one part causes an effect in the other
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