sympathy

同情、哀れみ

苦しんだり困ったりしている人を気の毒に思い、気にかける気持ち。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： sympathy for someone (I felt sympathy for the injured driver.); express sympathy to someone (We expressed our sympathy to the family.)

類義語： compassion, pity

反対語： indifference

よく使う表現： feel sympathy, deep sympathy, sympathy for someone

共感、感情移入

相手の気持ちを理解し、同じように感じることができる力。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： sympathy with someone (Her own experience gave her sympathy with the children.)

類義語： empathy, understanding

よく使う表現： sympathy with someone, human sympathy, understanding and sympathy

支持、賛同

人や団体、考え、目標を支持したり賛成したりすること。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： sympathy for something (There is growing sympathy for their cause.); in sympathy with someone/something (Other workers stopped work in sympathy with the drivers.)

類義語： support, approval, agreement

反対語： opposition

よく使う表現： sympathy for something, in sympathy with, political sympathies

共鳴、親和性

物事に似た反応をする人同士の、親しいつながり。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： sympathy between people (There was a natural sympathy between the two writers.)

類義語： affinity, rapport

よく使う表現： mutual sympathy, sympathy between people, sympathy of minds

器官相関

体のある部分の変化が、別の部分に影響を与えるつながり。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： sympathy between organs (The old medical text describes sympathy between the stomach and the heart.)

よく使う表現： sympathy between organs, sympathy of organs, bodily sympathy