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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | openness |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, broad-mindedness, impartiality, interest, observance, open-mindedness, receptiveness, receptivity, tolerance, understanding |
| Main Entry: | cordiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendliness, sociability |
| Synonyms: | affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, approbation, approval, earnestness, enjoyableness, favor, geniality, gratefulness, heartiness, mutuality, pleasantness, reciprocity, responsiveness, sincerity, sweetness and light, sympathy, understanding, warmth, wholeheartedness |
| Antonyms: | aloofness, coolness, hostility, ill will, indifference, unfriendlines, unsociability |
| Main Entry: | emotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental state |
| Synonyms: | affect, affection, affectivity, agitation, anger, ardor, commotion, concern, desire, despair, despondency, disturbance, drive, ecstasy, elation, empathy, excitability, excitement, feeling, fervor, grief, gut reaction, happiness, inspiration, joy, love, melancholy, passion, perturbation, pride, rage, remorse, responsiveness, sadness, satisfaction, sensation, sensibility, sensitiveness, sentiment, shame, sorrow, sympathy, thrill, tremor, vehemence, vibes, warmth, zeal |
| Antonyms: | physicality |
| Main Entry: | empathy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | affinity, appreciation, being on same wavelength, being there for someone, communion, community of interests, compassion, comprehension, concord, cottoning to, good vibrations, hitting it off, insight, picking up on, pity, rapport, recognition, responsiveness, soul, sympathy, warmth |
| Notes: | 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: | apathy, misunderstanding, unfeelingness |
| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sensation, especially of touch |
| Synonyms: | activity, awareness, consciousness, enjoyment, excitability, excitation, excitement, feel, innervation, motility, motor response, pain, perceiving, perception, pleasure, reaction, receptivity, reflex, responsiveness, sense, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, tactility, tangibility, titillation |
| Antonyms: | insensibility, numbness, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | grace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mercy, forgiveness |
| Synonyms: | benefaction, beneficence, benevolence, caritas, charity, clemency, compassion, compassionateness, favor, forbearance, generosity, good will, goodness, indulgence, kindliness, kindness, leniency, lenity, love, pardon, quarter, reprieve, responsiveness, tenderness |
| Antonyms: | mercilessness, unforgiveness |
| Main Entry: | gratitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appreciation |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, appreciativeness, grace, gratefulness, honor, indebtedness, obligation, praise, recognition, requital, response, responsiveness, sense of obligation, thankfulness, thanks, thanksgiving |
| Antonyms: | ingratitude, thanklessness |
| Main Entry: | sympathy |
| 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: | fellow feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sympathy |
| Synonyms: | Christian love, agape, brotherly love, concern, empathy, good feeling, identification, loving concern, rapport, relating, responsiveness, sympathetic response, vibes, warmth |
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