What is a tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron. [R.] called?
sympathy — A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron. [R.]. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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