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noun (sympath, ies)
  1. A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.
  2. The ability to share the feelings of another; empathy.
  3. (context, psychology) A mutual relationship between people such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
  4. (context, physiology) A mutual relationship between organs such that a condition of one part causes an effect in the other.
Translations: 
  • French: sympathie
    (trans-mid)
  • German: Sympathie
  • Italian: simpatia
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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