compassion
Meanings
Plural: compassions
Noun
- a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering
- the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it
- Deep awareness of the suffering of another, coupled with the wish to relieve it.
Verb
- To pity.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English compassioun, compassion, from Old French compassion, from Ecclesiastical Latin compassio (“sympathy”), from Latin compati, past participle compassus (“to suffer together with”), from com- (“together”) + pati (“to suffer”); see passion.
Synonyms
bowels, commiserate, commiseration, compassion, compassionate, compassionateness, condole, empathy, feel someone's pain, feel sorry for, fellow feeling, heart, kindness, loving-kindness, mercify, mercy, pity, remorse, rue, ruth, sorrow, sympathy, take pity, tenderheartedness
Antonyms
compassionlessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, uncompassion, unpity
Scrabble Score: 16
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