Usually means: Understanding feelings of others emotionally.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word sympathy:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. sympathy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sympathy, sympathy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sympathy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sympathy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sympathy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sympathy, sympathy: Wordnik
  7. sympathy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sympathy: Wiktionary
  9. sympathy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sympathy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sympathy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sympathy: Dictionary.com
  13. sympathy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sympathy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. 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
  16. Sympathy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sympathy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sympathy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. sympathy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. sympathy: Free Dictionary
  21. sympathy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. sympathy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. 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 (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. 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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