Synonyms of the word

sympathy

• n. A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.
• n. The ability to share the feelings of another.
• n. A mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
• n. Tendency towards or approval of the aims of a movement.

affinity

• n. A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
• n. A family relationship through marriage of a relative (e.g. sister-in-law), as opposed to consanguinity…
• n. A kinsman or kinswoman of such relationship. Affinal kinsman or kinswoman.
• n. The fact of and manner in which something is related to another.
• n. Any romantic relationship.
• n. Any passionate love for something.
• n. (taxonomy) resemblances between biological populations; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common…
• n. (geology) structural resemblances between minerals; resemblances that suggest that they are of a common…
• n. (chemistry) An attractive force between atoms, or groups of atoms, that contributes towards their forming…
• n. (medicine) The attraction between an antibody and an antigen.
• n. (computing) tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating…
• n. (geometry) An automorphism of affine space.

disposition

• n. The arrangement or placement of certain things.
• n. Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.
• n. Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.
• n. Control over something.
• n. (law) Transfer or relinquishment to the care or possession of another.
• n. (law) Final decision or settlement.
• n. (medicine) The destination of a patient after medical treatment such as surgery.
• n. (music) The set of choirs of strings on a harpsichord.
• v. To remove or place in a different position.

feeling

• adj. Emotionally sensitive.
• adj. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
• n. Sensation, particularly through the skin.
• n. Emotion; impression.
• n. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
• n. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
• n. Intuition.
• n. An opinion, an attitude.
• v. present participle of feel.

inclination

• n. A physical tilt or bend.
• n. A slant or slope.
• n. A mental tendency.
• n. (geometry) The angle of intersection of a reference plane.
• n. (obsolete) A person or thing loved or admired.

kinship

• n. relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption.
• n. relation or connection by nature or character.

tendency

• n. A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
• n. (politics) An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.

understanding

• n. (uncountable) Mental, sometimes emotional process of comprehension, assimilation of knowledge, which is…
• n. (countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
• n. (countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.
• n. (countable) An informal contract; mutual agreement.
• n. (countable) A reconciliation of differences.
• n. (uncountable) Sympathy.
• n. All that people individually sense and feel of themselves.
• adj. Showing compassion.
• v. present participle of understand.