NOUN | feeling | fellow feeling, sympathy | sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish) |
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Meaning | Sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish). | |
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Synonym | sympathy | |
Narrower | commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos | A feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others |
compassion, compassionateness | A deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering | |
compatibility | A feeling of sympathetic understanding | |
concern | A feeling of sympathy for someone or something | |
empathy | understanding and entering into another's feelings | |
kindheartedness, kind-heartedness | sympathy arising from a kind heart | |
Broader | feeling | The experiencing of affective and emotional states |
Spanish | compasión, piedad, simpatía | |
Catalan | compassió, simpatia |
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