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sympathy

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of sympathy

1 sorrow or the capacity to feel sorrow for anotherʼs suffering or misfortune

since losing her own brother to lung disease, the nurse has had greater sympathy for families going through the same agony

Synonyms of sympathy

commiseration, compassion, feeling

Words Related to sympathy

condolence, regret

humaneness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindness, mercy, pity, ruth, softheartedness, warmheartedness

affinity, empathy, rapport, sensitivity, understanding

altruism, benevolence, benignity, bigheartedness, charity, generosity, goodwill, humanitarianism, largeheartedness, largesse (also largess), magnanimity, philanthropy

Near Antonyms of sympathy

indifference, insensitivity, unconcern

cruelty, harshness, inhumanity

animosity, antipathy, dislike, hatred, hostility

Antonyms of sympathy

callousness, coldheartedness, hard-heartedness, heartlessness

2 the capacity for feeling for anotherʼs unhappiness or misfortune

the least you could do is have some sympathy for me if I have to stay home

Synonyms of sympathy

bigheartedness, charity, commiseration, compassion, feeling, good-heartedness, heart, humanity, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindness, largeheartedness, mercy, pity, ruth, softheartedness, warmheartedness

Words Related to sympathy

feelings, responsiveness, sensibility, sensitivity

affection, love, regard

affinity, empathy, rapport

altruism, benevolence, benignancy, benignity, generosity, goodwill, humaneness, humanism, humanitarianism, philanthropy

Near Antonyms of sympathy

callousness, coldness, disinterest, indifference, unconcern

cruelty, harshness

animosity, antipathy, dislike, hatred, hostility

Antonyms of sympathy

coldheartedness, hard-heartedness, inhumanity, inhumanness, mercilessness, pitilessness

Synonym Discussion of sympathy

attraction, affinity, sympathy mean the relationship existing between things or persons that are naturally or involuntarily drawn together. attraction implies the possession by one thing of a quality that pulls another to it.

- felt an attraction to danger

affinity implies a susceptibility or predisposition on the part of the one drawn.

- an affinity for mathematics

sympathy implies a reciprocal or natural relation between two things that are both susceptible to the same influence.

- two minds in sympathy

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