(the capacity for) feeling pity and sadness; a feeling of understanding or agreement
shared feeling
Cases of word usage
1) producing feelings of sympathy and wanting to help (appealing)
2) (an expression of) pity or sympathy (commiseration)
3) (expression of) sympathy (condolences)
4) the act of giving comfort or sympathy (consolation)
5) having, showing, thoughtfulness, willingness or sympathy for others (kind)
6) the quality which produces a feeling of pity, sympathy or tenderness (pathos)
7) love and sympathy for people (philanthropy)
8) (of a person, behaviour, act) showing no pity, sympathy or mercy (ruthless)
9) having or showing, caused by, sympathy (sympathetic)
10) causing a feeling of gratitude, sympathy etc; on the subject of (touching)