Sympathy

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Sympathy: 1. Pertaining to or produced by sympathy.

The mutual relation between parts more or less distant, whereby a change in the one has an effect upon the other. (Blakiston's New Gould Medical Dictionary; The Blakiston Company, 1949; 1st edition)

• 1. a. A real or supposed affinity between certain things, by virtue of which they are similarly or correspondingly affected by the same influence, affect or influence one another (especially in some hidden, unseen way), or attract or tend towards each other.
• 1. b. A relation between two bodily organs or parts (or between two persons or things) such that disorder, or any condition, of the one induces a corresponding condition in the other.
• 2. Agreement, accord, Harmony, consonance, concord, agreement in qualities, likeness, conformity, correspondence.
• 3. a. Conformity of feelings, inclinations, or temperament, which makes persons agreeable to each other; community of feelings; Harmony of disposition.
• 3. b. The quality or state of being affected by the condition of another with a feeling similar or corresponding to that of the other; the fact or capacity of entering into or sharing the feelings of another or others; fellow-feeling. Also, a feeling or frame of mind evoked by and responsive to some external influence. (source unknown) (underline added)

Sympathy (Page: 1462) Sym"pa*thy (?), n.; pl. Sympathies (#). (F. sympathie, L. sympathia, Gr. ; with + suffering, passion, fr. , , to suffer. See Syn-, and Pathos.)

• 1. 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.
• 2. 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.
• 3. Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion?.
• 4. (Physiol.) (a) 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. (b) 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?.
• 5. A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone? and iron?. (R.)
• 6. Similarity of function, use office, or the like. (Webster Dictionary, 1913)

See Also

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8.20 - Law of Sympathetic Oscillation
8.27 - Law of Sympathetic Oscillation
14.18 - Law of Sympathetic Association
Concordance
Connecting Link
Harmony
Law of Sympathetic Association
Law of Sympathetic Vibration
Love
Part 10 - What Sympathy Is
Sympathetic Oscillation
Sympathetic Vibration
Quantum Entanglement
Unison

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