sympathy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French sympathie, from Late Latin sympathīa (“feeling in common”), from Ancient Greek σῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ (sŭmpắtheiă, “fellow feeling”), from σῠμπᾰθής (sŭmpăthḗs, “affected by like feelings; exerting mutual influence, interacting”) + -ῐᾰ (-ĭă, “-y”, nominal suffix). Equivalent to sym- (“acting or considered together”) + -pathy (“feeling”).
Base: σῠμπᾰθής
Affixes: -ῐᾰ
Inflected forms:
form: sympathies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: While you'll probably have her sympathies if your condominium association wants to preapprove your storm door, you'll need to work harder for her support if your boss at the music megastore demands you grow a goatee to help lend the place some indie cred.
gloss: A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Oh vvhat a ſimpathie of vvoe is this, / As farre from helpe, as Lymbo is from bliſſe.
gloss: Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
gloss: Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Many people in Hollywood were blacklisted merely because they were suspected of Communist sympathies.
gloss: An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
A peculiarity of were-animals is the sympathy that exists between their animal form and that of the human with whom it is connected.
The solution to coach riding defects, at least, seems to require much more co-operative practical experiment by all engineering departments to achieve better sympathy between the vehicle body, its undercarriage and the track on which it rides.
Sympathy likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.
gloss: An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: apathy
antipathy
contempt
dissympathy
Derived words: dissympathy
himpathy
mechanical sympathy
nonsympathy
powder of sympathy
sympathetic
sympathism
sympathist
sympathize
sympathise
sympatho-
sympath-
sympathy card
sympathy is between shit and syphilis
sympathy strike
sympathy verdict
unsympathy
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: تَعَاطُف
roman: taʕāṭuf
lang: Arabic
word: عَطْف
roman: ʕaṭf
lang: Arabic
word: حُنُو
roman: ḥunū
lang: Armenian
word: համակրանք
roman: hamakrankʻ
lang: Bulgarian
word: съчувствие
roman: sǎčuvstvie
lang: Bulgarian
word: състрадание
roman: sǎstradanie
lang: Catalan
word: compassió
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 同情
roman: tóngqíng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 同感
roman: tónggǎn
lang: Czech
word: soustrast
lang: Czech
word: soucit
lang: Danish
word: medfølelse
lang: Danish
word: deltagelse
lang: Danish
word: sympati
lang: Dutch
word: medelijden
lang: Dutch
word: sympathie
lang: Esperanto
word: kunsento
lang: Faroese
word: samkensla
lang: Finnish
word: myötätunto
lang: Finnish
word: osanotto
lang: Finnish
word: sympatia
lang: French
word: compassion
lang: French
word: sympathie
lang: French
word: condoléance
lang: German
word: Mitleid
lang: German
word: Mitgefühl
lang: Greek
word: συμπάθεια
roman: sympátheia
lang: Ancient Greek
word: συμπάθεια
roman: sumpátheia
lang: Hebrew
word: אהדה
roman: Ahada
lang: Hindi
word: सहानुभूति
roman: sahānubhūti
lang: Hindi
word: संवेदना
roman: samvednā
lang: Hungarian
word: [1-2] együttérzés
lang: Hungarian
word: részvét
lang: Hungarian
word: [4] rokonszenv
lang: Icelandic
word: samúð
lang: Icelandic
word: samhygð
lang: Ido
word: simpatio
lang: Ido
word: kompato
lang: Indonesian
word: simpati
lang: Interlingua
word: compassion
lang: Italian
word: compassione
lang: Japanese
word: 同情
roman: dōjō
lang: Latin
word: compassio
lang: Malay
word: timbang rasa
lang: Malayalam
word: സഹതാപം
roman: sahatāpaṁ
lang: Manx
word: co-ennaghtyn
lang: Manx
word: erreeish
lang: Manx
word: co-choe
lang: Māori
word: pukuaroha
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: sympati
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: medfølelse
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: medlidenhet
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: sympati
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: medkjensle
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: medynk
lang: Old English
word: efnþrōwung
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Metfeelen
lang: Polish
word: współczucie
lang: Portuguese
word: compaixão
lang: Romanian
word: compasiune
lang: Romanian
word: compătimire
lang: Romanian
word: simpatie
lang: Russian
word: сочу́вствие
roman: sočúvstvije
lang: Russian
word: сострада́ние
roman: sostradánije
lang: Sanskrit
word: दया
roman: dayā
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: саосећај
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: суосјећај
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: saosećaj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: suosjećaj
lang: Spanish
word: compasión
lang: Swahili
word: juruma
lang: Swedish
word: sympati
lang: Swedish
word: deltagande
lang: Swedish
word: medkänsla
lang: Tagalog
word: simpatya
lang: Tagalog
word: awa
lang: Turkish
word: sempati
lang: Ukrainian
word: співчуття́
roman: spivčuttjá
lang: Vietnamese
word: thương cảm
lang: Welsh
word: cydymdeimlad
lang: Bulgarian
word: взаимно разбиране
roman: vzaimno razbirane
lang: Catalan
word: simpatia
lang: French
word: sympathie
lang: German
word: Sympathie
lang: Hungarian
word: rokonszenv
lang: Ido
word: afineso
lang: Irish
word: bá
lang: Irish
word: dáimh
lang: Polish
word: sympatia
lang: Portuguese
word: afinidade
lang: Russian
word: симпа́тия
roman: simpátija
lang: Spanish
word: afinidad