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What does sympathy mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word sympathy? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.
  2. The ability to share the feelings of another.
  3. A mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
  4. Tendency towards or approval of the aims of a movement.
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But then the man turns out to be a laid-off engineer who's putting on an act to gain sympathy.
Such sympathy was profoundly misdirected, comforting aggressors rather than victims.
Husband Brian offered no sympathy but couldn't wait for the peace and quiet.
Deepest sympathy is accorded to her loving family and all that regret her passing.
As to walking through tough bits of town, it's not sympathy I was hoping to elicit for anyone.
All of her teachers had sympathy on her, since she was their favorite student, they allowed her to retake tests and makeup missed work.

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