Sympathies

What do we mean by sympathies?

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

The ability to share the feelings of another.

A mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.

Tendency towards or approval of the aims of a movement.

Artistic harmony, as of shape or colour in a painting.

1. to care about someone else's feelings when they experience sadness or negative emotion due to an unfortunate event or situation. 2. two or more people have a goal, interest or opinion in common. 3. to feel support for a person or thing. Urban Dictionary

Sympathy differs from empathy in the following ways: With sympathy, the helper: Helps within his/her comfort zone Makes a cursory judgment of the person's needs Often will get upset when it is explicitly revealed that their help is misguided or unwelcome (after a long buildup) May feel as if he or she is the 'mentor', or the 'superior' With empathy, the helper: Relates to the person on a personal basis Forms a deep emotional bond with the person on many levels Learns to see the situation from the person's perspective Sees the person more as an equal, and 'walks in their shoes'. The two should not be confused. More often than not, sympathy is the form of 'caring' that is given to those in need, and can be quite misguided, especially in dire situations that most are not used to dealing with. Most therapists, teachers, and unfortunately parents will often give this kind of 'help' to a troubled or very upset person. However, if they were willing to step outside their comfort zones, they could learn how to relate effectively. Despite these huge differences, many indeed DO confuse the two. Urban Dictionary

A word in the dictionary which falls alphabetically between the words shit and syphillis. Urban Dictionary

Located in the dictionary between shit and syphilis, according to Major Payne Urban Dictionary

Nothing more than a word in the dictionary between Shit and Syphilis Urban Dictionary

Sympathy is to compassion what phoniness is to authenticity. Sympathy is a fake coin. "There, there, it'll be all right". It is cheap, easy, sentimental and most often lacks sincerity. When someone has taken ill, lost his job, gotten injured or some other mishap, it is often at their own hands, through stupidity, in attentiveness or self destructive inclinations. They will then ask for sympathy, in other words, they want a free pass so they can go out and fuck up some more - this time with your blessing. It is co-dependent behavior, at best. Now, if you want to really support someone, you'll offer compassion and honesty. When sympathy shows up, honesty usually flies out the window, as they are most often wholly incompatible. Hence the popular quip, you'll find sympathy in the dictionary between shit and syphilus. It is worse than offering nothing at all. Urban Dictionary

A word between shit and syphilis Urban Dictionary

Anybody that pretends to feel sorry for, or care about somebody in a court room when a camera is rolling is usually the kind of person who wants to go back to laughing about the whole thing later on (while saying something like it wasn't funny at the time, but it was funny afterward). Urban Dictionary

To like somebody Urban Dictionary

The type of ballon d'or which Penaldo fans and Bayern munich fans want Lewandowski to win in 2021 because ballon d'or was cancelled in 2020. Urban Dictionary

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Consonant match to sympathies:
sympathize, sympathise.

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