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sympathy - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | sympathy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shared feeling |
| Synonyms: | accord, affinity, agreement, alliance, attraction, commiseration, compassion, concord, connection, correspondence, empathy, fellow feeling, harmony, heart, kindness, rapport, sensitivity, tenderness, understanding, union, unity, warmth, benignancy, close relation, congeniality, feelings, kindliness, mutual attraction, mutual fondness, responsiveness, warmheartedness |
| Notes: | condolence and sympathy are parallel formations going back to Latin condolere and Greek sumpatheia, meaning 'together-suffering' empathy denotes a deep emotional understanding of another's feelings or problems, while sympathy is more general and can apply to small annoyances or setbacks sympathy means the stimulation in a person of feelings that are similar in kind to those that affect another person; empathy means a mental or affective projection into the feelings or state of mind of another person |
| Antonyms: | disdain, incompatibility, indifference |
| Main Entry: | sympathy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pity |
| Synonyms: | aid, cheer, comfort, commiseration, compassion, condolence, consolation, empathy, encouragement, rue, ruth, solace, tenderness, thoughtfulness, understanding, reassurance |
| Antonyms: | indifference, callousness, mercilessness |
| Main Entry: | accord |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, mutual understanding (often written) |
| Synonyms: | 10-4, concert, concord, concurrence, conformity, correspondence, deal, harmony, okay, pact, rapport, reconciliation, sympathy, treaty, accordance, congruence, good vibes, good vibrations, unanimity |
| Antonyms: | antagonism, denial, disagreement, dissension, opposition, refusal |
| Main Entry: | benevolence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charity |
| Synonyms: | altruism, amity, compassion, feeling, friendliness, friendship, generosity, gift, good will, goodness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindness, sympathy, comity |
| Antonyms: | animosity, ill will, malevolence, meanness, selfishness, spite, greediness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | compassion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tender feeling |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, charity, clemency, commiseration, compunction, condolence, consideration, empathy, fellow feeling, grace, heart, humanity, kindness, mercy, softness, sorrow, sympathy, tenderness, yearning, humaneness, lenity, softheartedness, tenderheartedness |
| Antonyms: | cruelty, harshness, hatred, indifference, meanness, tyranny, mercilessness |
| Main Entry: | compatibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harmony in relationship |
| Synonyms: | affinity, agreement, amity, congruity, consonance, empathy, fit, rapport, sympathy, unity, agreeableness, congeniality, like-mindedness, single-mindedness |
| Antonyms: | disharmony, incompatibility |
| Main Entry: | compunction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regret, sorrow |
| Synonyms: | attrition, conscience, contrition, misgiving, penitence, pity, qualm, reluctance, remorse, repentance, rue, ruth, shame, sympathy, penitency, punctiliousness, second thoughts, stab of conscience |
| Antonyms: | defiance, meanness, no remorse |
| Main Entry: | consolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relief, comfort |
| Synonyms: | cheer, comfort, compassion, ease, easement, encouragement, fellow feeling, help, pity, solace, succor, support, sympathy, alleviation, assuagement, lenity |
| Antonyms: | agitation, annoyance, antagonism, discouragement, disturbance, trouble, upset |
| Main Entry: | cordiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendliness, sociability |
| Synonyms: | amenity, approbation, approval, earnestness, favor, geniality, reciprocity, sincerity, sweetness and light, sympathy, understanding, warmth, affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amiability, enjoyableness, gratefulness, heartiness, mutuality, pleasantness, responsiveness, wholeheartedness |
| Antonyms: | coolness, hostility, ill will, indifference, aloofness, unfriendlines, unsociability |
| Main Entry: | emotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental state |
| Synonyms: | affect, affection, agitation, anger, ardor, commotion, concern, desire, despair, despondency, disturbance, drive, ecstasy, elation, empathy, excitement, feeling, fervor, grief, gut reaction, happiness, inspiration, joy, love, melancholy, passion, perturbation, pride, rage, remorse, sadness, satisfaction, sensation, sensibility, sentiment, shame, sorrow, sympathy, thrill, tremor, vehemence, warmth, zeal, affectivity, excitability, responsiveness, sensitiveness, vibes |
| Antonyms: | physicality |
| Main Entry: | empathy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | affinity, appreciation, communion, compassion, comprehension, concord, insight, pity, rapport, recognition, soul, sympathy, warmth, being on same wavelength, being there for someone, community of interests, cottoning to, good vibrations, hitting it off, picking up on, responsiveness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, misunderstanding, unfeelingness |
| Main Entry: | good will/goodwill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindliness |
| Synonyms: | altruism, amity, benevolence, brownie points*, charity, cordiality, favor, friendliness, friendship, generosity, good deed, helpfulness, rapport, sympathy, tolerance, comity, good side of, right side of |
| Antonyms: | meanness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | liking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fondness, taste |
| Synonyms: | affection, affinity, appetite, appreciation, attachment, attraction, bent, bias, desire, devotion, fancy, favoritism, inclination, love, mind, partiality, passion, penchant, pleasure, predilection, preference, propensity, relish, soft spot*, stomach, sympathy, tendency, tooth, weakness, will, palate, proneness, velleity |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mercy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindness, compassion |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, blessing, boon, charity, clemency, commiseration, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, generosity, gentleness, godsend, goodwill, grace, humanity, leniency, luck, mildness, pity, quarter, relief, ruth, sympathy, tenderness, tolerance, benignancy, kindliness, lenience, lenity, lifesaver, softheartedness |
| Antonyms: | cruelty, intolerance, meanness, uncompassion |
| Main Entry: | rapport |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding between people |
| Synonyms: | affinity, agreement, bond, compatibility, concord, empathy, groove, harmony, link, relationship, soul, sympathy, togetherness, unity, cotton, good vibes, good vibrations, hitting it off, interrelationship, same wavelength, simpatico, the groove |
| Antonyms: | coldness, unfriendliness |
| Main Entry: | sensitivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsiveness to stimuli |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, awareness, consciousness, delicacy, feeling, nervousness, sensation, sense, subtlety, susceptibility, sympathy, affectibility, impressionability, reactiveness, reactivity, receptiveness, sensitiveness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, numbness, impassivity, insensitivity |
| Main Entry: | unison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harmony |
| Synonyms: | accord, agreement, alliance, community, concert, concord, conjunction, consent, consonance, cooperation, federation, league, reciprocity, sympathy, union, unity, accordance, concordance, unanimity |
| Antonyms: | discord, disharmony |
| Main Entry: | commiseration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consolation |
| Synonyms: | compassion, condolence, pity, sympathy |
| Main Entry: | good will |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindliness |
| Synonyms: | altruism, amity, benevolence, brownie points, charity, cordiality, favor, friendliness, friendship, generosity, good deed, goodwill, helpfulness, kindness, rapport, sympathy, tolerance, comity |
| Main Entry: | tenderness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affection |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, courtesy, fondness, friendship, gentleness, kindness, love, sympathy, warmth, lovingness, softheartedness |
| Antonyms: | animosity, hatred, hostility, ill will, ruthlessness |
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