Sympathies Synonyms & Definitions

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• SympathiesDefinition & Meaning in English

  1. (pl. ) of Sympathy

• SympathyDefinition & Meaning in English

  1. (n.) The reciprocal influence exercised by organs or parts on one another, as shown in the effects of a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain.
  2. (n.) The influence of a certain psychological state in one person in producing a like state in another.
  3. (n.) Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling.
  4. (n.) Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion.
  5. (n.) An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between them.
  6. (n.) That relation which exists between different persons by which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that of himself. This is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another person suffering with hysteria.
  7. (n.) A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron.
  8. (n.) Similarity of function, use office, or the like.
  9. (n.) The reciprocal influence exercised by the various organs or parts of the body on one another, as manifested in the transmission of a disease by unknown means from one organ to another quite remote, or in the influence exerted by a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain.

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