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Sympathy is the perception, understanding, and reaction to the distress or need of another life form.

Sympathy may also refer to:

Music

• Sympathy (band), a Canadian blackened death metal band
• Sympathy (music), a short piece of instrumental music

Albums

• Sympathy (Raphe Malik album), 2004
• sympathy (Hitomi Takahashi album), 2006
• Sympathy, a 1980 album by John Miles

Songs

• "Sympathy" (Goo Goo Dolls song), 2003
• "Sympathy" (Rare Bird song), 1970, later covered by The Family Dogg, Marillion and Toyah
• "Sympathy" (Uriah Heep song), 1976
• "Sympathy", a song by Die Monster Die from the 1994 album Withdrawal Method
• "Sympathy", a song by Sleater-Kinney from the 2002 album One Beat
• "Sympathy", a song by Billy Talent from the 2006 album Billy Talent II
• "Sympathy", a song by Vampire Weekend from the 2019 album Father of the Bride
• "Sympathy", a song by Tremonti from the 2015 album Cauterize
• "Sympathize", a song by Amos Lee from the 2006 album Supply and Demand

Other uses

• "Sympathy" (poem), by Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1899
• Sympathy, a supernatural connection between a mantic event and a real circumstance prophesied in Greek divination

See also

• All pages with titles containing Sympathy
• Sympathetic (disambiguation)
• Empathy (disambiguation)
• Superficial sympathy, or crocodile tears
• Sympathy pain, symptoms of the Couvade syndrome
• Kinesthetic sympathy, an attachment to objects in hand not felt for them out of sight
• " The Power of Sympathy", a novel by William Hill Brown

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