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feeling sorry for someone from a comfortable distance, then changing the subject.
means A feeling of sorrow or compassion for another person's misfortune, often expressed as understanding or shared concern.
from From Greek 'sympatheia,' a marriage of 'syn-' (together) and 'pathos' (feeling, suffering) — literally 'suffering together.' It traveled through Latin 'sympathia' into English around the late 1500s, originally describing a mysterious affinity between things that seemed to mirror each other's states. 'Pathos' is the same root that gives us empathy, pathetic, and pathology — a whole family built on feeling.
word rootsFrom Greek for suffering together.
vs empathySympathy watches; empathy climbs into the hole.
physical reflexYawns and laughter spread by sympathetic contagion.
card industrySympathy cards are a multimillion-dollar grief market.
nervous systemYour sympathetic nerves trigger fight-or-flight, not feelings.