sympathy /simˈpə-thi/

1. Community of feeling
2. Power of entering into another's feelings or mind
3. Harmonious understanding
4. Compassion, pity
5. Affinity or correlation whereby one thing responds to the action of another or to action upon another
6. Agreement
7. (often in pl) a feeling of agreement or support, or an expression of this

sympathetˈic adjective

1. Feeling, inclined to or expressing sympathy
2. In sympathy
3. Acting or done in sympathy
4. Induced by sympathy (as sounds in a resonating body)
5. Congenial
6. Compassionate
7. Of the sympathetic nervous system (see below)
8. (a Gallicism) able to awake sympathy

sympathetˈical adjective (obsolete)

Sympathetic

sympathetˈically adverb

symˈpathize or symˈpathise intransitive verb

1. To be in sympathy
2. To feel with or for another
3. To be compassionate
4. To be in accord, correspond

1. To be in sympathy, accord or harmony with
2. To combine harmoniously
3. To represent or understand sympathetically
4. Perh to affect all alike

symˈpathizer or symˈpathiser noun

sympatholytˈic adjective (medicine)

Inhibiting the action of the sympathetic nervous system

A drug which has this effect

sympathomimetˈic adjective (pharmacology)

Mimicking the action of the sympathetic nervous system

A drug which does this

sympathetic ink see under ink

sympathetic magic noun

Magic depending upon a supposed sympathy, eg between a person and his or her name or portrait, between rainfall and libations

sympathetic nervous system noun

1. A system of nerves supplying the involuntary muscles and glands, esp those originating from the cervical, thoracic and lumbar regions of the spinal cord
2. Sometimes also including those from the brain and the sacral region (the parasympathetic nervous system)

sympathetic string noun

A string on a musical instrument that is not struck itself, but resonates with strings that are actually bowed or plucked

sympathy strike or sympathetic strike noun

A strike in support of other workers, not in furtherance of the strikers' own claims

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