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Definition of Sympathy

Sympathy The reciprocal influence exercised by organs or parts on one another, as shown in the effects of a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain. The influence of a certain psychological state in one person in producing a like state in another. Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling. An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between them. Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion. The reciprocal influence exercised by the various organs or parts of the body on one another, as manifested in the transmission of a disease by unknown means from one organ to another quite remote, or in the influence exerted by a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain. That relation which exists between different persons by which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that of himself. This is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another person suffering with hysteria. A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron. Similarity of function, use office, or the like. Related Definitions: Accord, Act, Affected, Affection, Agreement, An, And, Another, As, Be, Become, Being, Between, Body, Brain, By, Certain, Commiseration, Compassion, Condition, Conformity, Correspondent, Corresponding, Degree, Different, Disease, Diseased, Each, Exercised, Exerted, Experienced, Feeling, Fellow-Feeling, From, Function, Himself, Hysteria, Hysteric, If, In, Inanimate, Influence, Iron, Is, Kind, Kindness, Like, Loadstone, Manifested, Many, Natural, Not, Of, Office, Often, On, One, Or, Organ, Other, Part, Perfect, Person, Pity, Pleased, Produced, Producing, Psychological, Quality, Quite, Reciprocal, Relation, Remote, Seeing, Shown, Similarity, State, Strong, Suffering, Sympathy, Temperament, Tendency, That, The, Them, There, This, To, Toward, Transmission, Tumor, Unite, Unknown, Use, Various, Vomiting, Which, Who, With, Women, Yawn

Sympathy Quotations It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. Henry David Thoreau Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. Samuel Taylor Coleridge If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. Oscar Wilde No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. Emma Goldman There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. Oscar Wilde

Sympathy Translations sympathy in Afrikaans is simpatie sympathy in Dutch is medegevoel, deelneming sympathy in French is sympathie, attendrissement sympathy in Italian is simpatia, simpatia

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