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a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other; "the two of them were in close sympathy"

a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other; "the two of them were in close sympathy"

The influence of a certain psychological state in one person in producing a like state in another.

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.

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.

Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion.

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.

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.

A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron.

Similarity of function, use office, or the like.

The influence of a certain psychological state in one person in producing a like state in another.

A feeling like that which another feels; harmony or agreement of affections or tastes.

1. The mutual relation, physiological or pathological, between two organs, systems, or parts of the body. 2. Mental contagion, as seen in the spread of chorea or other nervous disease through a school, the yawning induced by seeing another person yawn, etc.

Applied to condition where an uninjured part is affected by one that is injured, as losing sight of one eye due to injury of the other eye.

Feeling with another: like feeling: an agreement of inclination, feeling, or sensation: compassion: pity: tenderness.

Feeling with another; agreement of feeling; pity; compassion; capacity of being affected by the condition of another.

Feeling correspondent to that of another; fellow-feeling: followed by with.

Pity; commiseration: followed by for.

Congeniality; accord; affinity.

Fellow-feeling; the quality of being affected by the affection of another with correspondent feelings; compassion; an agreement of affections or inclinations; a correspondence of various parts of the body in similar sensations or affections; a propension of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other.

That relation of different parts of the system in virtue of which one part becomes diseased or disordered in consequence of disease or disorder existing in some other part, not because of actual extension of the morbid process by continuity of structure. [Gr.]

n. [Greek] Feeling correspondingly to that which another feels; fellow feeling; -an agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which, makes two persons pleased with each other ;-pity; commiseration;-in medicine, reciprocal influence exercised by the various parts of the body on one another in affections or disorders of the system;-in natural history, a propension of one body or substance to unite with or act on another; affinity;-in the fine arts, conformity of parts one to the other; - in painting, effective union of colours.