different between concert vs sympathy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French concert, from Italian concerto. Doublet of concerto.

Pronunciation

• (verb)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?s??t/
  • (US) enPR: k?nsûrt?, IPA^(key): /k?n?s?t/
• (noun)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?ns?t/
  • (US) enPR: kän?s?rt, IPA^(key): /?k?ns?t/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t

Verb

concert (third-person singular simple present concerts, present participle concerting, simple past and past participle concerted)

1. To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.

   • It was concerted to begin the siege in March.

2. To plan; to devise; to arrange.
   • 1756, Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society

     A commander had more trouble to concert his defence before the people than to plan […] the campaign.

3. To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.

   • The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert the matter with Talbot.

Translations

Noun

concert (countable and uncountable, plural concerts)

1. (uncountable) Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
2. (uncountable) Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
3. (countable) A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.

   I'm going to the rock concert on Friday.

   Synonym: gig

Derived terms

• concertmaster
• in concert

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (kons?to)
• ? Korean: ??? (konseoteu)
• ? Thai: ????????? (k??n-s???t)

Translations

Further reading

• Concert in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Catalan

Noun

concert m (plural concerts)

1. concert (musical entertainment)

Derived terms

• concertista

Related terms

• concertar

Further reading

• “concert” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “concert” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “concert” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “concert” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French concert, from Italian concerto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s?rt/
• Hyphenation: con?cert
• Rhymes: -?rt

Noun

concert n (plural concerten, diminutive concertje n)

1. concert (musical entertainment)

Derived terms

• concertgebouw
• concertmeester
• concertzaal

Descendants

• Afrikaans: konsert
• ? Indonesian: konser
• ? West Frisian: konsert

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian concerto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.s??/

Noun

concert m (plural concerts)

1. concert (musical entertainment)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Dutch: concert
• ? Turkish: konser

Further reading

• “concert” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• concret

Romanian

Etymology

From French concert

Noun

concert n (plural concerte)

1. concert

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French sympathie, from Late Latin sympath?a (“feeling in common”), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (sumpátheia, “fellow feeling”), from ???????? (sumpath?s, “affected by like feelings; exerting mutual influence, interacting”) +? -?? (-ia, “-y”, nominal suffix); equivalent to sym- (“acting or considered together”) +? -pathy (“feeling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m.p??.i/
• Rhymes: -?mp??i

Noun

sympathy (countable and uncountable, plural sympathies)

1. A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.

   Synonym: compassion

   1. (in the plural) The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
   2. The ability to share the feelings of another.
2. Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.
   1. (in the plural) Support in the form of shared feelings or opinions.
   2. Feeling of loyalty; tendency towards, agreement with or approval of an opinion or aim; a favorable attitude.

3. An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
   1. Mutual or parallel susceptibility or a condition brought about by it.
   2. (art) Artistic harmony, as of shape or colour in a painting.

Usage notes

• Used similarly to empathy, interchangeably in looser usage. In stricter usage, empathy is stronger and more intimate, while sympathy is weaker and more distant; see empathy: usage notes.

Antonyms

• contempt (context-dependent)

Derived terms

Translations

References

• “sympathy”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “sympathy”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).