Usually means: Understanding feelings of others emotionally.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word sympathy:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. sympathy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sympathy: Merriam-Webster
  3. sympathy, sympathy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sympathy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sympathy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sympathy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sympathy, sympathy: Wordnik
  8. sympathy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sympathy: Wiktionary
  10. sympathy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sympathy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sympathy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sympathy: Dictionary.com
  14. sympathy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sympathy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sympathy (Goo Goo Dolls song), Sympathy (John Miles album), Sympathy (Rare Bird song), Sympathy (Uriah Heep's song), Sympathy (Uriah Heep song), Sympathy (band), Sympathy (song), Sympathy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sympathy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sympathy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sympathy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sympathy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sympathy: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sympathy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sympathy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. sympathy: Rhymezone

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sympathy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sympathy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sympathy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. sympathy: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sympathy: Idioms

(Note: See sympathies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.
noun:  (in the plural) The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
noun:  The ability to share the feelings of another.
noun:  Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.
noun:  (in the plural) Support in the form of shared feelings or opinions.
noun:  Feeling of loyalty; tendency towards, agreement with or approval of an opinion or aim; a favorable attitude.
noun:  An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
noun:  Mutual or parallel susceptibility or a condition brought about by it.
noun:  (art) Artistic harmony, as of shape or colour in a painting.

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