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sympathizable en · ADJ

Etymology

From sympathize + -able.

Meanings

1. Able to be sympathized with; meriting sympathy.
   • Sympathizable more or less is every person and indeed every animal. 2005, Denton Jaques Snider, Feeling Psychologically Treated, and Prolegomena to Psychology, page 276:
   • But the stakes are higher for McCain as a presidential candidate; what might play as endearingly sympathizable ignorance in your home state becomes more problematic at the national scale, with another 49 state treasuries under your watch. 2009, Michael E. Ross, American Bandwidth: Weblogs and Essays, page 184:
   • This is in part quite simply because civilizations are conceived as such grand, encompassing entities that it becomes difficult to demonstrate the connections between group belonging and tangible, communicable, sympathizable suffering. 2010, Ronald Niezen, Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law, page 138:
   • Indeed, his opera Yoake presents itself as a clear example of musical and textual actions unfolding in a linear narrative, whereby characters would appear reasonable, convincing, and (if necessary) sympathizable. 2013, Christian Utz, Frederick Lau, Vocal Music and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Music, page 117:

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