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1
sorrow or the capacity to feel sorrow for another's suffering or misfortune
- since losing her own brother to lung disease, the nurse has had greater sympathy for families going through the same agony
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2
the capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune
- the least you could do is have some sympathy for me if I have to stay home
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The first known use of sympathy was in 1579
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