sympathy

noun9

1. •
   sadness and pity that someone feels for another person's pain or trouble
2. •
   Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.

   • Oh vvhat a simpathie of vvoe is this, / As farre from helpe, as Lymbo is from blisse. — 1588
3. •
   [in the plural] Support in the form of shared feelings or opinions.
4. •
   Feeling of loyalty; tendency towards, agreement with or approval of an opinion or aim; a favorable attitude.

   • Many people in Hollywood were blacklisted merely because they were suspected of Communist sympathies.
5. •
   [in the plural] The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
6. •
   The ability to share the feelings of another.
7. •
   An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.

   • He observed, also, the frequent sympathy of volcanic and terremotive action in remote districts of the earth's surface, thus showing how deeply seated must be the cause of these convulsions. — 1858
8. •
   Mutual or parallel susceptibility or a condition brought about by it.
9. •
   Artistic harmony, as of shape or colour in a painting.