[ˈsɪmpəθi], (Noun)

Definitions:
- feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune
(e.g: they had great sympathy for the flood victims)

- understanding between people; common feeling
(e.g: the special sympathy between the two boys was obvious to all)

- the state or fact of responding in a way similar or corresponding to an action elsewhere
(e.g: the magnetic field oscillates in sympathy)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 16th century (in sympathy): via Latin from Greek sumpatheia, from sumpathēs, from sun- ‘with’ + pathos ‘feeling’