Meaning

2 senses
  1. Someone who sympathizes; a sympathizer.

    c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Some Other Plays of Shakespeare the sensation , -of human auditors , —of flesh and blood sympathists - acts as a support and a stimulation a tergo

  2. (archaic)One who is susceptible to hypnotic suggestion.

Origin

From sympathy + -ist.

From sympathy + -ist.

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