## Meanings
1. A feeling of pity and sorrow for someone who is suffering.
2. The act of understanding and sharing another person's feelings.
3. Agreement with or support for an idea, opinion, or cause.

## Examples
- She felt great sympathy for the families who lost their homes.
- He listened to her problems with real sympathy.
- Most of the workers were in sympathy with the strike.

## Antonyms
- antipathy
- apathy
- contempt
- dissympathy

## Derived Forms
- dissympathy
- sympath-
- sympathetic
- sympathise
- sympathism
- sympathist
- sympathize
- sympatho-
- unsympathy

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: sympathīa
- Root: σῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ
- Affix: sym- - with

## Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French sympathie, from Late Latin sympathīa (“feeling in common”), from Ancient Greek σῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ (sŭmpắtheiă, “fellow feeling”), from σῠμπᾰθής (sŭmpăthḗs, “affected by like feelings; exerting mutual influence, interacting”) + -ῐᾰ (-ĭă, “-y”, nominal suffix). Equivalent to sym- (“acting or considered together”) + -pathy (“feeling”).

## AI Etymology
Sympathy is borrowed from Middle French sympathie, from Late Latin sympathīa (“feeling in common”), from Ancient Greek σῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ (sŭmpắtheiă, “fellow feeling”), from σῠμπᾰθής (sŭmpăthḗs, “affected by like feelings; exerting mutual influence, interacting”) + -ῐᾰ (-ĭă, “-y”, nominal suffix). Equivalent to sym- (“acting or considered together”) + -pathy (“feeling”). In present-day use, it can mean a feeling of pity and sorrow for someone who is suffering, or the act of understanding and sharing another person's feelings.

## Topics
- Emotions & Feelings

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