Crossword-Solution: SYMPATHY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sympathy | 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. |
| Sympathy | 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. |
| Sympathy | n. | Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion. |
| Sympathy | 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. |
| Sympathy | 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. |
| Sympathy | n. | A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron. |
| Sympathy | n. | Similarity of function, use office, or the like. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “SYMPATHY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| an understanding of anothers sadness | 1 answer |
| an understanding of another s sadness | 1 answer |
| What some cards express | 1 answer |
| Tea's companion | 1 answer |
| Sincere compassion | 1 answer |
| Setter's upward stroke blocks shot - pity! | 1 answer |
| Sameness of feeling. | 1 answer |
| Popular song from Friml's "The Firefly." | 1 answer |
| Old-time Friml song. | 1 answer |
| I knew I could count on his understanding | 1 answer |
| Deep, sincere compassion | 1 answer |
| Expression of approval and support | 2 answers |
| Opposite of schadenfreude | 2 answers |
| Feeling of compassion | 3 answers |
| Pathos | 4 answers |
| fellow-feeling | 8 answers |
| emotional life | 8 answers |
| Fellow feeling | 10 answers |
| Empathy | 15 answers |
| Kind of card | 21 answers |
| dispensation | 23 answers |
| commiseration | 26 answers |
| "Pity!" | 46 answers |
| Compas-sion | 75 answers |
| humanity | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with SYMPATHY (5)
Its sympathy for my brethren in bonds—its scathing denunciations of slaveholders—its faithful exposures of slavery—and its powerful attacks upon the upholders of the institution—sent a thrill of joy through my soul, such as I had never felt before! I had not long been a reader of the “Liberator,” before I got a pretty correct idea of the principles, measures and spirit of the anti-slavery reform.
Perhaps it would be more accurately described as a determined rebellion against her prejudices, a revulsion from a lower instinct of uncharitableness, which would have withheld all sympathy from the dead woman, because in life she had preceded Bathsheba in the attentions of a man whom Bathsheba had by no means ceased from loving, though her love was sick to death just now with the gravity of a further misgiving.
Meagre, indeed, and cold, was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders, at the scaffold.
However great their intellectual degradation, the Eloi had kept too much of the human form not to claim my sympathy, and to make me perforce a sharer in their degradation and their Fear.
From her questions and the doctor’s answers he was able to form some conception of the little world that was almost the measure of Thea’s experience, the one bit of the human drama that she had followed with sympathy and understanding.
Quotes with SYMPATHY (3)
In an old family album Ever again you return, Melancholy, O meekness of the solitary soul. A golden day glows and expires. Humbly the patient man surrenders to pain Ringing with melodious sound and soft madness. Look! There's the twilight. Night returns once more and a mortal thing laments And another suffers in sympathy. Shuddering under autumn stars Yearly the head is bowed deeper.-Georg Trakl (1887-1914)
Happy the writer who, passing by characters that are boring, disgusting, shocking in their mournful reality, approaches characters that manifest the lofty dignity of man, who from the great pool of daily whirling images has chosen only the rare exceptions, who has never once betrayed the exalted turning of his lyre, nor descended from his height to his poor, insignificant brethren, and, without touching the ground, has given the whole of himself to his elevated images so far …
MY FIVE DOS FOR GETTING BACK INTO THE GAME: 1. Do expect defeat. It’s a given when the stakes are high and the competition is working ferociously to beat you. If you’re surprised when it happens, you’re dreaming; dreamers don’t last long. 2. Do force yourself to stop looking backward and dwelling on the professional “train wreck” you have just been in. It’s mental quicksand. 3. Do allow yourself appropriate recovery — grieving — time. You’ve been knocked senseless; give yours…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1953–2022).