Sympathy is a feeling of affinity that attracts and identifies people, is an instinctive tendency that leads the individual to establish harmony with the other, allowing for the creation of bonds of friendship.
Sympathy is the ability that people have to participate in other people's emotions, which may vary from mere acceptance and understanding of the feelings of others and the complete identification of one's emotional states with the from the other.
They are synonymous with sympathy: inclination, affection, affinity, tendency and attraction.
Sympathize can be a relationship of attraction or inclination that something or even an idea exerts on someone, that is, the act of liking something that aroused their interest.
To be friendly is to be friendly, to be pleasant, to be polite, is to show kindness and kindness to each other.
In Brazil, "sympathy" is the name given to a ritual or to a object of superstition used to prevent or cure an ailment or illness.
In Brazilian popular usage, the sympathy can be considered a kind of spell or magic
, but with a less negative connotation, not related to evil practices.As a rule, sympathies are rituals made with positive or beneficial things as goals, such as the conquest of love or the cure of a disease, for example.
See also the meaning of macumba.
Antipathy
Unlike sympathy, the dislike is a feeling of spontaneous aversion and instinctive that people can nurture for their fellow man, for an object or even for an idea.
Dislike is a repugnance, an incompatibility, a repulsion in identifying with the other.
See also the meaning of empathy.