sympathy

Plural

sympathies

1. 1.A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.

   • If you want sympathy you’ll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis. Sympathy may pay well in the short term, but if you cash in on sympathy, it will take everything from you in the long run.
   • And all told, Trump’s second term has actually led to the most sympathy for migrants on record in the 21st century, per Gallup. Fully 79% of Americans now say immigration is a “good thing,” compared with 64% last year.

2. 2.Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.

   • Many people in Hollywood were blacklisted merely because they were suspected of Communist sympathies.

3. 3.An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.

   • Sympathy likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.
   • A peculiarity of were-animals is the sympathy that exists between their animal form and that of the human with whom it is connected.
   • He observed, also, the frequent sympathy of volcanic and terremotive action in remote districts of the earth's surface, thus showing how deeply seated must be the cause of these convulsions.

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