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sympathist

noun

Etymology

From sympathy + -ist.

  1. derived from σῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ
  2. derived from sympathīa
  3. borrowed from sympathie
  4. suffixed as sympathist — “sympathy + ist”

Definitions

  1. Someone who sympathizes

    Someone who sympathizes; a sympathizer.

    • c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Some Other Plays of Shakespeare the sensation , -of human auditors , —of flesh and blood sympathists - acts as a support and a stimulation a tergo

  2. One who is susceptible to hypnotic suggestion.

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