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sympathy

noun
/ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French sympathie, from Late Latin sympathīa (“feeling in common”), from Ancient Greek σῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ (sŭmpắtheiă, “fellow feeling”), from σῠμπᾰθής (sŭmpăthḗs, “affected by like feelings; exerting mutual influence, interacting”) + -ῐᾰ (-ĭă, “-y”, nominal suffix). Equivalent to sym- (“acting or considered together”) + -pathy (“feeling”).

  1. derived from σῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ
  2. derived from sympathīa
  3. borrowed from sympathie

Definitions

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

    • If you want sympathy you’ll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis. Sympathy may pay well in the short term, but if you cash in on sympathy, it will take everything from you in the long run.
    • And all told, Trump’s second term has actually led to the most sympathy for migrants on record in the 21st century, per Gallup. Fully 79% of Americans now say immigration is a “good thing,” compared with 64% last year.

  2. Inclination to think or feel alike

    Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.

    • Oh vvhat a ſimpathie of vvoe is this, / As farre from helpe, as Lymbo is from bliſſe.

  3. An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they…

    An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.

    • He observed, also, the frequent sympathy of volcanic and terremotive action in remote districts of the earth's surface, thus showing how deeply seated must be the cause of these convulsions.
    • A peculiarity of were-animals is the sympathy that exists between their animal form and that of the human with whom it is connected.

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Derived

dissympathy, himpathy, mechanical sympathy, nonsympathy, powder of sympathy, sympathetic, sympathism, sympathist, sympathize, sympathise, sympatho-, sympath-, sympathy card, sympathy is between shit and syphilis, sympathy strike, sympathy verdict, unsympathy

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sympathy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at sympathy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at sympathy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA