Sympathetic
Sympathetic is an adjective with several related meanings centered on shared feeling or compassion. In everyday use, it describes a person who shows concern or pity for others, or actions intended to comfort someone. It can also describe qualities that elicit sympathy in others, or a tendency to feel for others' misfortunes. The word comes from Latin sympathia, via Greek sympatheia, from syn- “together” and -pathos “feeling.”
In physiology, the sympathetic nervous system is a division of the autonomic nervous system that prepares the
In science and music, sympathetic describes phenomena where one system resonates with another: sympathetic resonance or
In literature and rhetoric, a sympathetic character or portrayal is one that readers feel for and understand;