Borrowed from Middle French sympathie, from Late Latin sympathīa ("feeling in common"), from Ancient Greek σῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ ("fellow feeling"), from σῠμπᾰθής + -ῐᾰ; equivalent to sym- + -pathy.
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