sympathy

perception, understanding, and reaction to the distress or need of another human being
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sympathy

Summary

sympathy is an emotion[1]. sympathy has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • sympathy's instance of is recorded as emotion[3].
  • sympathy is a type of feeling[4].
  • sympathy is part of psychological terminology[5].
  • sympathy's Commons category is recorded as Sympathy[6].
  • sympathy is the opposite of antipathy[7].
  • sympathy's facet of is recorded as psychology[8].
  • sympathy's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • sympathy's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • sympathy's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[11].
  • sympathy's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[12].
  • sympathy's different from is recorded as compassion[13].
  • sympathy's different from is recorded as sympathetic magic[14].
  • sympathy's different from is recorded as sympathy[15].
  • sympathy's different from is recorded as mimpathy[16].

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Context

sympathy is part of psychological terminology[5]. sympathy's instance of is recorded as emotion[3].

Why It Matters

sympathy has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2] sympathy is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 4RK4DG
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  2. 5w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id 0282559-sympatie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0282559-sympatie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  3. 8w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of
    Facet of psychology
    Instance of
    Subclass of feeling
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|6 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 12213, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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