(n.) synthetic sympathy, generated empathy; the empathetic power given to a machine, computorial device or digital entity; a kind of emotional understanding specific to sentient mechanisms (adj.) the way a digital entity expresses emotional understanding through it's man-made programs
(pl.) synthepies (adj.) synthepethetic
The coils of the great supercomputer squinched in a groan of reverberant pain, as if in synthepy to the human content overlookers who'd soon be too swampted to sleep that night.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)