compassion | | |
n. (feeling) | 1. compassion, compassionateness | a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering. |
| ~ heartstrings | your deepest feelings of love and compassion.; "many adoption cases tug at the heartstrings" |
| ~ fellow feeling, sympathy | sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish). |
| ~ tenderheartedness, tenderness | warm compassionate feelings. |
| ~ mercifulness, mercy | the feeling that motivates compassion. |
n. (attribute) | 2. compassion, pity | the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it. |
| ~ mercifulness, mercy | a disposition to be kind and forgiving.; "in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband" |
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