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sympathist

sympathist noun: someone who sympathizes; a sympathizer.

Noun

sympathist (plural sympathists)

  1. Someone who sympathizes; a sympathizer.
    • the sensation , -of human auditors , —of flesh and blood sympathists - acts as a support and a stimulation a tergoc. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Some Other Plays of Shakespeare
  2. (archaic) One who is susceptible to hypnotic suggestion.

Forms of sympathist

pluralsympathists

Origin of sympathist

From sympathy + -ist.

Questions about sympathist

What does sympathist mean?
Sympathist means someone who sympathizes; a sympathizer.
What part of speech is sympathist?
Sympathist is a noun.
What is the plural of sympathist?
The plural of sympathist is sympathists.

Words near sympathist in the dictionary

  1. sympathises
  2. sympathising
  3. sympathisingly
  4. sympathisings
  5. sympathism
  6. sympathist
  7. sympathists
  8. sympathizable
  9. sympathize
  10. sympathized
  11. sympathizer

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