Sympathy (Goo Goo Dolls song)
WordNet
noun
(1) An inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
"His sympathies were always with the underdog"
"I knew I could count on his understanding"
(2) Sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)
(3) A relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other
"The two of them were in close sympathy"
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Etymology
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Noun
- A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.
- The ability to share the feelings of another; empathy.
- A mutual relationship between people such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
- A mutual relationship between organs such that a condition of one part causes an effect in the other.
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- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
- likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 67, The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)