sympathy
shared feeling or compassion
Roots
- path: feeling or suffering
- syn- / sym-: together or with
Other words with the path root
- antipathy: strong dislike
- apathy: lack of feeling or concern
- empathy: ability to understand another person's feelings
- pathetic: arousing pity; weak or inadequate
- pathological: caused by or involving disease; compulsive or unhealthy
Sympathy is feeling with someone. The path root turns emotion into company.
Her sympathy did not solve the problem but it made the student feel less alone.