hidden pixel

Sympathy Definition

sympathy

Wikipedia has an article on: Sympathy

Contents

English

Etymology

From Middle French sympathie, from Late Latin sympathia, from Ancient Greek συμπάθεια (sumpatheia), from σύν (sun, “with, together”) + πάθος (pathos, “suffering”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sympathy (plural sympathies)

  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. A mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
    • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
      'Sympathy' likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.

Antonyms

Derived terms

 

The above information uses material from Wiktionary and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Some facts may not have been fully verified for accuracy. [Disclaimers]
This page was last archived by our server on Tue Apr 24 01:38:41 2012.
Displaying this page or its contents does not use any Wikimedia Foundation's resources.
The owners of this site proudly support the Wikimedia Foundation.

More Definition Results for "Sympathy"
[Hide]▼
'Sympathy' Images
[Hide]▲