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4 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Compassion \Com*pas"sion\, verb (used with an object) To pity. [Obs.] --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Compassion \Com*pas"sion\, noun [F., fr. L. compassio, fr. compati to have compassion; com- + pati to bear, suffer. See {Patient}.] Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration.
Womanly ingenuity set to work by womanly compassion. --Macaulay.
Syn: Pity; sympathy; commiseration; fellow-feeling; mercy; condolence. See {Pity}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
compassion
noun
1: a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering [syn: {compassionateness}]
2: the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it [syn: {pity}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "compassion": acceptance, affectionateness, benevolence, benignancy, benignity, brotherhood, charity, clemency, clementness, commiseration, condolence, easiness, easygoingness, empathy, favor, feeling, feeling of kinship, fellow feeling, forbearance, forbearing, forgiveness, fraternal feeling, gentleness, goodness, goodness of heart, grace, graciousness, heart of gold, humaneness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindly disposition, kindness, laxness, lenience, leniency, lenientness, lenity, loving kindness, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, mitigation, moderateness, niceness, pardon, pathos, patience, pity, quarter, relief, reprieve, rue, ruth, self-pity, softheartedness, softness, soul of kindness, sympathy, tenderheartedness, tenderness, tolerance, warmheartedness, warmth, warmth of heart
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