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English to English noun
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an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion |  | Example: his sympathies were always with the underdog
I knew I could count on his understanding
source: wordnet30
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sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish) | | source: wordnet30
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a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other | | Example: the two of them were in close sympathy
source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913
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The reciprocal influence exercised by organs or parts on one another, as shown in the effects of a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain. | | source: webster1913
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