sympathy
• noun (pl. sympathies) 1 feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else’s misfortune. 2 understanding between people; common feeling. 3 support for or approval of something. 4 (in sympathy) relating harmoniously to something else; in keeping. 5 the state or fact of responding in a way corresponding to an action elsewhere. — ORIGIN Greek sumpatheia, from sun- ‘with’ + pathos ‘feeling’.
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