sympathy

• sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)
• an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
• a relation of affinity or harmony between people
• Feeling corresponding to that which another feels
• An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another
• Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers
• 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
• 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
• A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other
• Similarity of function, use office, or the like

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