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.
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
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Henry David Thoreau
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
Jerome K. Jerome
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
George Eliot
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt Whitman
Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
Woodrow Wilson
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
Henri Frederic Amiel
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Richard M. Nixon
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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