sympathy englanniksi - Sanakirja.org (englanti-englanti)

A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.
The ability to share the feelings of another.
A mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
Tendency towards or approval of the aims of a movement.

Sympathy likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.
Many people in Hollywood were blacklisted merely because they were suspected of Communist sympathies.
Pity and compassion are words appropriated to signify our fellow-feeling with the sorrow of others. Sympathy, though its meaning was, perhaps, originally the same, may now, however, without much impropriety, be made use of to denote our fellow-feeling with any passion whatever.

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