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 without contact.
* In psychology, sympathy is a feeling of compassion or identification with another.
* In religion, magic, and anthropology, sympathy is the belief that like affects like, that something can be influenced through its relationship with another thing.
