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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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Deepest sympathy is accorded to her loving family and all that regret her passing.
Its developers worked in unusual sympathy, preserving the watercourses, mature trees and shoreline that were, and remain, the site's patrimony.
Such sympathy was profoundly misdirected, comforting aggressors rather than victims.
But then the man turns out to be a laid-off engineer who's putting on an act to gain sympathy.
As to walking through tough bits of town, it's not sympathy I was hoping to elicit for anyone.
Those interjections were very reasonable, and the Minister was simply putting on an act to try to get some sympathy.

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