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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Meaning of "sympathy" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SYMPATHY

From Latin sympathīa, from Greek sumpatheia, from sumpathēs, from syn- + pathos suffering.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SYMPATHY

sympathy  [ˈsɪmpəθɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SYMPATHY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sympathy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SYMPATHY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

sympathy

Sympathy

Sympathy is the perception, understanding, and reaction to the distress or need of another human being. This empathic concern is driven by a switch in viewpoint, from a personal perspective to the perspective of another group or individual who is in need. Empathy and sympathy are often used interchangeably. Sympathy is a feeling, but the two terms have distinct origins and meanings. Empathy refers to the understanding and sharing of a specific emotional state with another person. Sympathy does not require the sharing of the same emotional state. Instead, sympathy is a concern for the well-being of another. Although sympathy may begin with empathizing with the same emotion another person is feeling, empathy can be extended to other emotional states.

Definition of sympathy in the English dictionary

The first definition of sympathy in the dictionary is the sharing of another's emotions, esp of sorrow or anguish; pity; compassion. Other definition of sympathy is an affinity or harmony, usually of feelings or interests, between persons or things. Sympathy is also mutual affection or understanding arising from such a relationship; congeniality.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SYMPATHY


allelopathy
ˌælɪˈlɒpəθɪ
allopathy
əˈlɒpəθɪ
antipathy
ænˈtɪpəθɪ
apathy
ˈæpəθɪ
cardiomyopathy
ˌkɑːdɪəʊmaɪˈɒpəθɪ
empathy
ˈɛmpəθɪ
encephalopathy
ɛnˌsɛfəˈlɒpəθɪ
enteropathy
ˌentəˈrɒpəθɪ
homeopathy
ˌhəʊmɪˈɒpəθɪ
homoeopathy
ˌhəʊmɪˈɒpəθɪ
lymphadenopathy
lɪmˌfædɪˈnɒpəθɪ
myelopathy
ˌmaɪəˈlɒpəθɪ
myopathy
maɪˈɒpəθɪ
naturopathy
ˌneɪtʃəˈrɒpəθɪ
nephropathy
nɛfˈrɒpəθɪ
neuropathy
njʊˈrɒpəθɪ
osteopathy
ˌɒstɪˈɒpəθɪ
retinopathy
ˌrɛtɪˈnɒpəθɪ
telepathy
tɪˈlɛpəθɪ
unsympathy
ʌnˈsɪmpəθɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SYMPATHY

sympathectomies
sympathectomy
sympathetic
sympathetic ink
sympathetic magic
sympathetic strike
sympathetically
sympathies
sympathin
sympathique
sympathise
sympathize
sympathizer
sympatholytic
sympathomimetic
sympathy strike
sympatric
sympatrically
sympatry
sympetalous

WORDS THAT END LIKE SYMPATHY

adenopathy
arthropathy
bovine spongiform encephalopathy
cardiopathy
cranial osteopathy
dyspathy
enantiopathy
endocrinopathy
haemoglobinopathy
hemoglobinopathy
hydropathy
idiopathy
kinesipathy
myalgic encephalopathy
myocardiopathy
naprapathy
protopathy
sociopathy
swathy
tea and sympathy
transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

Synonyms and antonyms of sympathy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SYMPATHY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «sympathy» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of sympathy

Translation of «sympathy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SYMPATHY

Find out the translation of sympathy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sympathy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sympathy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

同情心
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lástima
570 millions of speakers

English

sympathy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सहानुभूति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تَعَاطُف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сочувствие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

compaixão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সহানুভূতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

compassion
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Simpati
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Mitgefühl
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

同情
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

동정
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Simpati
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự thông cảm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அனுதாபம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सहानुभूती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sempati
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

comprensione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sympatia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

співчуття
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

compasiune
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συμπόνια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

simpatie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sympati
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sympati
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sympathy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SYMPATHY»

The term «sympathy» is very widely used and occupies the 12.462 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SYMPATHY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sympathy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sympathy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sympathy

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10 QUOTES WITH «SYMPATHY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sympathy.
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William R. Alger
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
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Les Aspin
There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.
3
Irving Babbitt
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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Aneurin Bevan
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
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Harold Bloom
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
6
Robert Browning
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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Susan Bysiewicz
I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable.
8
Laura Carmichael
You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SYMPATHY»

Discover the use of sympathy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sympathy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Sympathy of Things: Ruskin and the Ecology of Design
In this book Spuybroek argues that we must "undo" the twentieth century - the age in which the sublime turned from an art category into a technical reality.
‎2011
2
Schools of Sympathy: Gender and Identification Through the Novel
Therefore, the character cannot be studied without studying the response she generates, which, in these novels, is sympathy.
Nancy Roberts, 1997
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The nature of sympathy...
This book reviews the evaluations of love and sympathy in different historical periods and in different social and religious environments.
Max Ferdinand Scheler
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Sympathy & Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine
This edition includes a new preface that reflects on the changing world of women in medicine over the past two decades.
Regina Markell Morantz-Sanchez, 2000
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No Sympathy for the Devil: Christian Pop Music and the ...
In this cultural history of evangelical Christianity and popular music, David Stowe demonstrates how mainstream rock of the 1960s and 1970s has influenced conservative evangelical Christianity through the development of Christian pop music.
David Ware Stowe, 2011
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The Burden of Sympathy: How Families Cope with Mental Illness
Maintaining one's own mental health while caring for another's can be an impossible task. In Burden of Sympathy, David Karp uses sixty extensive interviews to chronicle the experiences of the friends and family members of the mentally ill.
David A. Karp, 2002
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The Psychology of Sympathy
The origins of this book probably go back to Gordon Allport's seminar in social psychology at Harvard during the late 1940s and to the invitation from Gardner Lindzey, some years later, to contribute a section on "Sympathy and Empathy" to ...
Lauren Wispé, 1991
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Victorian Fiction and the Insights of Sympathy: An ...
This ground-breaking study of sympathetic readings in Victorian fiction breathes new life into contemporary literary criticism.
Brigid Lowe, 2007
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Tea and Sympathy: A Drama in Three Acts
This groundbreaking drama explores a sensitive young man's coming of age amid the taunts and suspicions of his classmates and teachers at a private boy's academy.
Robert Anderson, 1955
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Scenes of Sympathy: Identity and Representation in Victorian ...
In Scenes of Sympathy, Audrey Jaffe argues that representations of sympathy in Victorian fiction both reveal and unsettle Victorian ideologies of identity.
Audrey Jaffe, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SYMPATHY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sympathy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tunisia terror attack: The Queen sends 'deepest sympathy' to victims …
"We send our sincere condolences to the families of those who were killed and our deepest sympathy to the people who are still fighting for their lives in hospital, ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jun 15»
2
Karen Buckley's family issue statement to thank Scotland for their …
THE family of Karen Buckley released the statement through an Irish newspaper to say thank you to the people of Scotland for their support and sympathy. «Scottish Daily Record, Jun 15»
3
Battle Creek Series Finale Review: Sympathy for the Devil
At the beginning of Battle Creek Season 1 Episode 13 when Milt was in his car getting teary eyed before his run, I did it right along with him. Again, as the two ... «TV Fanatic, May 15»
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'Sympathy for the De Vil'
The thing about a show that specializes in twisted fairy tales is that sooner or later, those watching it will learn to expect the twists. Which meant that, halfway ... «Entertainment Weekly, Apr 15»
5
'Once Upon a Time' season 4, episode 18 offers little sympathy for …
This Sunday's Once Upon a Time season 4, episode 18, “Sympathy for the de Vil,” will dive into the backstory of Cruella de Vil, both in the Enchanted Forest and ... «Hypable, Apr 15»
6
Over a quarter of British Muslims have sympathy for the Charlie …
Presented with the statement “I have some sympathy for the motives behind the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris”, 27 seven percent agreed with the statement. «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
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Emma Paulsen gets sympathy from columnist after animal cruelty …
A column in a local B.C. newspaper expressing sympathy for Emma Paulsen, who was convicted of animal cruelty in the heatstroke deaths of six dogs, has ... «CBC.ca, Feb 15»
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Billy Vunipola expresses sympathy to Ben Morgan and England No …
Saracens No 8 Billy Vunipola has expressed his sympathy for England rival Ben Morgan after he suffered a broken leg last week. Morgan's injury, suffered ... «Daily Mail, Jan 15»
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Student Threatened for Calling Out Classmate Who Tweeted...
When a senior at Brandeis University saw one of his student leaders tweeting that she had “no sympathy” for the murdered NYPD officers, he publicized it — and ... «National Review Online, Dec 14»
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A Brandeis student refuses to show sympathy for assassinated …
“I have no sympathy for the NYPD officers who were murdered today. IMAO, all I just really don't have sympathy for the cops who were shot. I hate this racist, ... «Jerusalem Post, Dec 14»

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