sympathy

compassion, commisération

Tristesse et souci que l’on éprouve pour quelqu’un qui souffre ou traverse des difficultés.

En anglais simple : A feeling of sadness and care for someone who is suffering or having problems.

• I felt sympathy for her.
• Please accept our deepest sympathy for your loss.
• The victims received messages of sympathy from around the world.

Comment l'utiliser : sympathy for someone (I felt sympathy for the injured driver.); express sympathy to someone (We expressed our sympathy to the family.)

Synonymes : compassion, pity

Contraires : indifference

Expressions courantes : feel sympathy, deep sympathy, sympathy for someone

empathie, compréhension

Capacité à comprendre ce qu’une autre personne ressent et à partager ses émotions.

En anglais simple : The ability to understand how another person feels and share those feelings.

• She listened with understanding and sympathy.
• His sympathy helped me explain my fears.
• Having faced similar problems, she felt real sympathy with him.

Comment l'utiliser : sympathy with someone (Her own experience gave her sympathy with the children.)

Synonymes : empathy, understanding

Expressions courantes : sympathy with someone, human sympathy, understanding and sympathy

sympathie, soutien

Soutien ou accord envers une personne, un groupe, une idée ou un objectif.

En anglais simple : Support for or agreement with a person, group, idea, or aim.

• He has sympathy for their aims.
• Her political sympathies changed over time.
• Workers marched in sympathy with the striking nurses.

Comment l'utiliser : sympathy for something (There is growing sympathy for their cause.); in sympathy with someone/something (Other workers stopped work in sympathy with the drivers.)

Synonymes : support, approval, agreement

Contraires : opposition

Expressions courantes : sympathy for something, in sympathy with, political sympathies

affinité, accord

Lien étroit entre des personnes qui réagissent de façon semblable aux choses.

En anglais simple : A close connection between people who respond to things in similar ways.

• A quiet sympathy grew between them.
• Their shared interests created a sympathy of minds.
• Despite their differences, they found a deep mutual sympathy.

Comment l'utiliser : sympathy between people (There was a natural sympathy between the two writers.)

Synonymes : affinity, rapport

Expressions courantes : mutual sympathy, sympathy between people, sympathy of minds

sympathie organique

Lien entre des parties du corps : un changement dans l’une entraîne une réaction dans une autre.

En anglais simple : A connection between body parts in which a change in one affects another.

• The physician described sympathy between organs.
• Early doctors explained some symptoms through bodily sympathy.
• The author attributed the distant pain to sympathy with the injured organ.

Comment l'utiliser : sympathy between organs (The old medical text describes sympathy between the stomach and the heart.)

Expressions courantes : sympathy between organs, sympathy of organs, bodily sympathy