compassion
noun
1 compassion
A deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering.
synonym: compassionateness.
Roget 740: lenity, lenience, leniency; moderation etc. 174; tolerance, toleration; mildness, gentleness; favor, indulgence, indulgency†; clemency, ... show more
Dutch: compassie, piëta, erbarmen, medeleven, medelijden
Polish: miłosierdzie, współczucie, ubolewanie, zmiłowanie, litość, kompasja
2 compassion
The humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it.
synonym: pity.
Roget 914: pity, compassion, commiseration; bowels, of compassion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency ... show more
Dutch: barmhartigheid, compassie, deernis, mededogen, medegevoel, medelijden, meedogendheid, meelij, meewarigheid
Polish: litościwość
Moby thesaurus: acceptance, affectionateness, benevolence, benignancy, benignity, brotherhood, charity, clemency, clementness, commiseration, condolence, easiness, easygoingness, empathy, favor, feeling, feeling of kinship, fellow feeling, forbearance, forbearing ... show more.
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