(n.) Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling.
(n.) An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between them.
(n.) Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion.
(n.) The reciprocal influence exercised by the various organs or parts of the body on one another, as manifested in the transmission of a disease by unknown means from one organ to another quite remote, or in the influence exerted by a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain.
(n.) That relation which exists between different persons by which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that of himself. This is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another person suffering with hysteria.
(n.) A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron.
(n.) Similarity of function, use office, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hulk Hogan’s status as a public figure, even one who holds forth often and at length about his sex life, may have kept him from getting the kind of sympathy that the subject of the escort story immediately received, but there’s no evidence Bollea intended for anyone to see the tape.
(2) Former Tory minister Edwina Currie has tweeted that she had "no sympathy" for food bank users, that they were just "opportunists".
(3) With Fury, I’m not going to have no remorse, I’m not going to have no sympathy.
(4) I have no quarrel with the overall thrust of Andrew Rawnsley's argument that the south-east is over-dominant in the UK economy and, as someone who has lived and worked both in Cardiff and Newcastle upon Tyne, I have sympathy with the claims of the north-east of England as well as Wales (" No wonder the coalition hasn't many friends in the north ", Comment).
(5) He added: “I have no sympathy for real paedophiles.
(6) But obviously if people have been injured or indeed killed that is a tragedy and our sympathies are with the victims and their families.” He added: “We never condone violence – whatever the cause.
(7) A Facebook page created for friends, family and well-wishers to write messages of sympathy was filling with tributes.
(8) Kafka's faceless and amoral heroes, on the other hand, inspire no sympathy at all.
(9) There was little sympathy from the Lib Dems' coalition partners in the Conservative party.
(10) A year after the establishment of the so-called caliphate by Islamic State , western governments are struggling for strategies to challenge sympathy among their citizens towards the militants.
(11) You could think the narrator's extreme failures of sympathy are despicable, but this would surely be beside the point.
(12) Its coverage was so vindictive and blatantly unfair that it succeeded in winning sympathy for the prime minister, not an easy thing to do these days.
(13) The curator Clare Browne has a certain sympathy for Bock – “he was a serious collector, and he saved many pieces which would otherwise certainly have been destroyed” – but even she is startled that he ran his scissors straight through the figure of Christ, sparing only the face, which ended up in the V&A’s half.
(14) Speaking at a press conference following the preview of his latest film, Melancholia, von Trier expressed sympathy for Hitler, remarked that Israel was "a pain in the arse" and jokingly confessed to being a Nazi .
(15) The Labour leader is determined to retain autonomy on policy and to avoid being dictated to by his party when he is not in sympathy with the message it is giving him.
(16) Too many of his answers start with, “I have some sympathy with what you say, but...”; he comes across as just another politician.
(17) He has little sympathy for those displaced along the way.
(18) This includes the carbon content of fuels, driver behaviour, infrastructure, as well as the potential of car connectivity and intelligent transport systems (ITS).” The industry’s position has won the sympathy of oil companies, which also oppose fuel economy targets for 2025 and 2030.
(19) "I've got a great deal of sympathy with the situationist position.
(20) Perhaps monstering earns underdog sympathy, with contempt for the press as rife as contempt for conventional politics.
Unfeeling
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate.
(a.) Without kind feelings; cruel; hard-hearted.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has let itself be called a government of unfeeling toffs … The abiding sin of the government is not that some ministers are rich, but that it seems unable to manage its affairs competently."
(2) "You have to be an unfeeling idiot, which we're not, to fail to recognise that the last few years have been tough economic times for people in many places all over the world," he said.
(3) I still remember the conversation, with nostalgia mingled with outrage at the unfeeling nature of capitalism.
(4) Mass education, economic crisis and unfeeling government have long constituted a fertile soil for the cults of authoritarianism and violence.
(5) Trierweiler is forever dashing into bathrooms and collapsing while Hollande is an unfeeling prig who either ignores her or tells her to stop being so melodramatic.
(6) It has let itself be called a government of unfeeling toffs.
(7) It owes an apology to local authorities and to nation as a whole for this unthinking and unfeeling approach to the plight of some of the most vulnerable children in the world.
(8) Government Bond Markets: Unfeeling Psychopaths or Rational Keynesians?
(9) Such is the death of the high street: at one end, it evokes poignant nostalgia – at the other, outrage at the unfeeling nature of capitalism.
(10) In this regard the film’s psychologically dark and patricidal energies are inescapable: when pressed about his mother, Leon replies “let me tell you about my mother”, and blasts the inquiring blade runner in the groin; when Roy demands of Tyrell, “I want more life, fucker”, it’s the first and only swear word in the film, all the stronger for it, and for being addressed to a “father” who has unfeelingly engineered him, and not out of love fathered him at all.
(11) True villains and true psychopaths are, fortunately, rather rare; but, in the right circumstances, becoming unfeelingly obedient and inhuman in this way can become a common condition.
(12) Evidence had revealed the sons as "self-indulgent, substance-abusing, over-pampered" and depicted Adelson as a "harsh, demanding, unfeeling" person, the judge wrote.
(13) Poorly conceived messages that lack cultural, economic or social adaptation to the specified target population, authoritarian, unfeeling pedagogy, and inadequate educational tools lead to uncertain results.
(14) When Gould wrote a lengthy article for the New York Times in 2008 about her compulsion to reveal details of her private life online – she coined the term "oversharing" – more than 1,200 irate comments were left on the Times website condemning her "self-exposure" and calling her everything from a "moronic juvenile" to an "unfeeling, self-absorbed unsavoury clod".
(15) There is the intention to be fair - even to the hated bourgeois parents of the cool and apparently unfeeling wife who is at length brought to heel by a miscarriage.
(16) Britain wasn't quite the 1963 Wyoming depicted in Brokeback Mountain, but it, too, contained its stories of sex thwarted, love irredeemably lost and lives made grey by unfeeling law.
(17) Senior members of the nursing staff were felt to be unfeeling in dealing with the distress of their juniors when laying out deceased patients.
(18) "She has been attacked for being cold or unfeeling but she couldn't show the regime she was suffering.