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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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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