Definition of Sympathy

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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.

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Sympathy Quotations

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Henry David Thoreau

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

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Oscar Wilde

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt Whitman

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
P. J. O'Rourke

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
Woodrow Wilson

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
Florence Nightingale

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Richard M. Nixon

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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