Sympathetic
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The word sympathetic means different things in different contexts.
In neurology and neuroscience, the sympathetic nervous system is a part of the autonomic nervous system. In music theory, sympathetic strings are strings on a musical instrument that resonate on their own. In psychology, sympathy is a feeling of compassion or identification with another. In religion, metaphysics, medicine, sympathy is the belief that like affects like, that something can be influenced through its relationship with another thing.

