Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUS
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /ˈsɪmpəθi/
Översättning
Substantiv
1.sempati

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.
  2. The ability to share the feelings of another.
  3. A mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
  4. Tendency towards or approval of the aims of a movement.

Exempel

  • Sympathy likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.
  • Many people in Hollywood were blacklisted merely because they were suspected of Communist sympathies.
  • Pity and compassion are words appropriated to signify our fellow-feeling with the sorrow of others. Sympathy, though its meaning was, perhaps, originally the same, may now, however, without much impropriety, be made use of to denote our fellow-feeling with any passion whatever.

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Pluralsympathies

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