sympathy

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.

   “If you want sympathy you’ll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis. Sympathy may pay well in the short term, but if you cash in on sympathy, it will take everything from you in the long run.”

2. isim The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune.

   “While you'll probably have her sympathies if your condominium association wants to preapprove your storm door, you'll need to work harder for her support if your boss at the music megastore demands you grow a goatee to help lend the place some indie cred.”

3. isim The ability to share the feelings of another.
4. isim Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.

   “Oh vvhat a ſimpathie of vvoe is this, / As farre from helpe, as Lymbo is from bliſſe.”

5. isim Support in the form of shared feelings or opinions.
6. isim Feeling of loyalty; tendency towards, agreement with or approval of an opinion or aim; a favorable attitude.

   “Many people in Hollywood were blacklisted merely because they were suspected of Communist sympathies.”

7. isim An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.

   “He observed, also, the frequent sympathy of volcanic and terremotive action in remote districts of the earth's surface, thus showing how deeply seated must be the cause of these convulsions.”

8. isim Mutual or parallel susceptibility or a condition brought about by it.
9. isim Artistic harmony, as of shape or colour in a painting.