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Sympathy

/ˈsɪmpəθi/

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

📖 Definitions of "Sympathy"

noun
  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    The ability to share the feelings of another.

  3. 3

    A mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.

  4. 4

    Tendency towards or approval of the aims of a movement.

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

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