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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shared feeling |
| Synonyms: | accord, affinity, agreement, alliance, attraction, benignancy, close relation, commiseration, compassion, concord, congeniality, connection, correspondence, empathy, feelings, fellow feeling, harmony, heart, kindliness, kindness, mutual attraction, mutual fondness, rapport, responsiveness, sensitivity, tenderness, understanding, union, unity, warmheartedness, warmth |
| Notes: | condolence and sympathy are parallel formations going back to Latin condolere and Greek sumpatheia, meaning 'together-suffering' empathy denotes a deep emotional understanding of another's feelings or problems, while sympathy is more general and can apply to small annoyances or setbacks sympathy means the stimulation in a person of feelings that are similar in kind to those that affect another person; empathy means a mental or affective projection into the feelings or state of mind of another person |
| Antonyms: | disdain, incompatibility, indifference |
| Main Entry: | accordance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | accord, conformance, conformation, conformity, congruence, congruity, consensus, consonance, correspondence, harmony, unison |
| Notes: | something (a quality) is in accord with something else; something acts in accordance with something else (an activity) |
| Main Entry: | alikeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | likeness |
| Synonyms: | affinity, agreement, analogy, comparableness, comparison, correspondence, equivalence, resemblance, sameness, similarity, similitude, uniformity, uniformness |
| Main Entry: | conformance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | accord, accordance, coherence, compliance, conformation, conforming, conformity, congruence, congruency, congruity, congruousness, correspondence, harmonization, harmony, similarity, uniformity |
| Main Entry: | congruence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | accord, accordance, coherence, compliance, conformance, conformation, conforming, conformity, congruency, congruity, congruousness, correspondence, harmonization, harmony, similarity, uniformity |
| Main Entry: | intercommunication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | communication |
| Synonyms: | advice, advisement, announcing, articulation, assertion, communion, connection, contact, conversation, converse, correspondence, corresponding, declaration, delivery, disclosing, dissemination, elucidation, expression, intelligence, interchange, intercourse, link, making known, mention, notifying, publication, reading, reception, revelation, talk, talking, telling, transfer, translating, transmission, utterance, writing |
| Main Entry: | materiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relevance |
| Synonyms: | accordance, applicability, application, appositeness, aptness, bearing, concernment, congruence, correspondence, germaneness, importance, matter, pertinence, pertinency, relatedness, relativity, relevancy, significance, substance |
| Main Entry: | parallelism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | likeness |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, affinity, agreement, alikeness, analogousness, analogy, appearance, carbon, clone, comparableness, comparison, conformity, copy, correspondence, counterpart, dead ringer, delineation, depiction, ditto*, double, effigy, equality, equivalence, facsimile, form, guise, identicalness, identity, image, knock-off, lookalike, model, photocopy, photograph, picture, portrait, replica, representation, reproduction, resemblance, sameness, semblance, similarity, simile, similitude, study, uniformity, uniformness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pertinency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relevance |
| Synonyms: | accordance, applicability, application, appositeness, aptness, bearing, concernment, congruence, correspondence, germaneness, importance, materiality, pertinence, relatedness, relativity, relevancy, significance |
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