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symphoria

noun /sɪmˈfɔːɹi.ə/

  1. Bringing together, integration, or coparticipation.

    uncountable

    Empathy signifies exploring, reconnoitering, contemplating, estimating, judging, “feeling into,” but not “feeling with” the other person. Symphoria implies “feeling into” and “feeling and swing with” the other person.

Where it comes from

From Ancient Greek σῠμφέρω (sŭmphérō, “bring together”). The chemistry sense was coined by Robert Thornton Morrison and Robert Neilson Boyd in the 5th (1987) edition of Organic Chemistry.

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Adapted from the Wiktionary entry symphoria (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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