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1. Sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)
   - fellow feeling
    
2. An inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
   "his sympathies were always with the underdog"
   - understanding
    
3. A relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other
   "the two of them were in close sympathy"

Derived forms: sympathies

See also: sympathetic, sympathize

Type of: affinity, disposition, feeling, inclination, kinship, tendency

Encyclopedia: Sympathy