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forbearance
English
Etymology
From forbear +? -ance.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /f???be??n(t)s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f???b????n(t)s/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /fo??bi???n(t)s/
Noun
forbearance (countable and uncountable, plural forbearances)
- Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.
- A refraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due.
Synonyms
- patience
- restraint
- thole (obsolete, rare, or regional)
- forgiveness
Related terms
- forbear
Translations
Further reading
- forbearance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- forbearance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- forbearance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- forbearance at OneLook Dictionary Search
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sympathy
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)
- A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.
- Synonym: compassion
- (in the plural) The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
- The ability to share the feelings of another.
- Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.
- (in the plural) Support in the form of shared feelings or opinions.
- Feeling of loyalty; tendency towards, agreement with or approval of an opinion or aim; a favorable attitude.
- An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
- Mutual or parallel susceptibility or a condition brought about by it.
- (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).
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