sympathy

Nouns

  • (n) an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
    • his sympathies were always with the underdog
    • I knew I could count on his understanding
    understanding,
  • (n) sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish) fellow feeling,
  • (n) a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other
    • the two of them were in close sympathy

Synonyms

understanding fellow feeling

Words of close approximity

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