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noun (sympath, ies)
- A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.
- The ability to share the feelings of another; empathy.
- (context, psychology) A mutual relationship between people such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
- (context, physiology) A mutual relationship between organs such that a condition of one part causes an effect in the other.
Etymology: From sympathie < sympathia < (sympatheia) "sympathy, affinity" < (sympathÄs) "having a fellow feeling" < prefix - (sym-), variant of - (syn-) "with, in company with, together with" + (patheo) "to have a secondary affection" < (pascho) "to be affected by, to suffer" < (PIE.) base - kwenth- ("to suffer," "to endure").
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