sympathy
Fellow feeling expressed
Sympathy is fellow feeling—sharing in another's emotions, especially sorrow or hardship.
To have sympathy for someone is to understand and care about their situation.
Sympathy often implies emotional distance: you feel for them rather than with them, distinguishing it from empathy.
My sympathies expresses condolences.
In the plural, sympathies can mean allegiances: Her sympathies lay with the rebels.
Things in sympathy resonate together: The strings vibrated in sympathy.
Mental comprehension of something
- kindnessConsiderate, caring disposition
- caringShowing kind concern
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
- warmthHeat you feel
concern · sensitivity · benevolence · humanity · gentleness · mercy · pity · commiseration
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- lossBeing without something
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- consolationComfort during distress
solace · mourning · funeral · condolences · tribute · memorial · remembrance · eulogy
Mental comprehension of something
- perspective-takingUnderstanding another's viewpoint
- attunementHarmonious receptive connection
- resonanceAmplified oscillation at natural frequency
- identificationEstablishing who someone is
relatability · connection · feeling · vicarious · mirror · cognitive · affective · sensitivity
State of being related
- connectionA joining or relation
- rapportHarmonious mutual connection
- resonanceAmplified oscillation at natural frequency
- identificationEstablishing who someone is
understanding · likeness · harmony · affiliation · alignment · accord · compatibility · correspondence
Deeply and sincerely meant
- genuineTruly what it claims
- earnestSincerely intense in purpose
- deepFar from surface
- profoundIntensely meaningful or insightful
true · wholehearted · unfeigned · authentic · real · honest · warm · tender
To uphold or sustain
- allianceFormal union of parties
- brotherhoodKinship among men
- sisterhoodBond among women
- unityWholeness through cohesion
camaraderie · togetherness · backing · fellowship · collective · kinship · bonding · community
understanding
Mental comprehension of something
- kindnessConsiderate, caring disposition
- caringShowing kind concern
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
warmth · concern · sensitivity · benevolence · humanity · gentleness · mercy · pity · commiseration · fellow-feeling
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- lossBeing without something
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
consolation · solace · mourning · funeral · condolences · tribute · memorial · remembrance · eulogy · lamentation
understanding
Mental comprehension of something
- perspective-takingUnderstanding another's viewpoint
- attunementHarmonious receptive connection
- resonanceAmplified oscillation at natural frequency
identification · relatability · connection · feeling · vicarious · mirror · cognitive · affective · sensitivity · insight
kinship
State of being related
- connectionA joining or relation
- rapportHarmonious mutual connection
- resonanceAmplified oscillation at natural frequency
identification · understanding · likeness · harmony · affiliation · alignment · accord · compatibility · correspondence · fellow-feeling
heartfelt
Deeply and sincerely meant
profound · true · wholehearted · unfeigned · authentic · real · honest · warm · tender · moving
support
To uphold or sustain
- allianceFormal union of parties
- brotherhoodKinship among men
- sisterhoodBond among women
unity · camaraderie · togetherness · backing · fellowship · collective · kinship · bonding · community · cooperation
- connectionslink, links, connect, connection, tie
- emotionsjoy, anger, fear, sadness, love
- social interactiongreeting, hello, goodbye, hi, bye
- supportsupport, emotional support, moral support, support group, stand by
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- griefgrief, mourning, bereavement, sorrow, grieving
sympathyindifference
Lack of interest
callousness · coldness · heartlessness · cold-heartedness · hard-heartedness
sympathyantipathy
Ingrained, intense aversion
disapproval · aversion · dislike · opposition · disagreement
- sympathy cardMessage acknowledging another's grief
- deepest sympathyProfound shared sorrow
- with sympathyExpressing shared feeling
- have no sympathyFeel no pity
- no sympathy
- sympathy flowersBlooms for mourners
sympathetic, sympathize, unsympathetic, sympathizer, sympathetically, sympathies, sympathizing, sympathized, sympathizes