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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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pathos
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????? (páthos, “suffering”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?pe????s/
- (US) IPA(key): /?pe???o?s/, /?pæ??o?s/
Noun
pathos (countable and uncountable, plural pathoses)
- The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From The Madding Crowd, 1874:
- His voice had a genuine pathos now, and his large brown hands perceptibly trembled.
- 20 August 2018, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett in The Guardian, Young women are smashing it at Edinburgh as the #MeToo legacy kicks in
- Pritchard-McLean’s show is perfectly constructed, and at times deeply moving to the point where some audience members were near tears, yet the pathos is undercut by true belly laughs – but don’t trust me, read the reviews.
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From The Madding Crowd, 1874:
- (rhetoric) A writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of strong emotions such as pity.
- (literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
- (theology, philosophy) In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep and abiding commitment of the heart, as in the notion of "finding your passion" as an important aspect of a fully lived, engaged life.
- Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:pathos.
Related terms
- antipathy
- apathy
- bathos
- empathy
- pathetic
- patience
- patient
- pathology
- pathogen
- psychopathy
- sympathy
Translations
Further reading
- pathos in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- pathos in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- pathos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Pashto, Potash, potash, sophta
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- páthos, patos
Noun
pathos m (plural pathos)
- pathos (the quality of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions)
Spanish
Noun
pathos m (plural pathos)
- pathos
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