A feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others:
— The blind are too often objects of pity.

synonyms: commiseration, pathos, ruth.

Roget 914: pity, compassion, commiseration; bowels, of compassion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency etc. (lenity) 740; charity, ruth, long-suffering.    melting mood; argumentum ad misericordiam [Lat.], quarter, grace, locus paenitentiae [Lat.].    sympathizer; advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher.    ... show more

Dutch: deernis, medelijden, jammer

An unfortunate development:
— It's a pity he couldn't do it.

synonym: shame.

The humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it.

synonym: compassion.

Dutch: barmhartigheid, compassie, deernis, mededogen, medegevoel, medelijden, meedogendheid, meelij, meewarigheid
Polish: litościwość

Share the suffering of.

synonyms: compassionate, condole with, feel for, sympathize with.

Roget 914: pity; have pity, show pity, take pity etc. n.; commiserate, compassionate; condole etc. 915; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of.    forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis [Lat.], give a coup de gr=ace, put out of one's misery.    raise pity, excite pity etc. n.; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm.    ask for mercy etc. v.; supplicate etc. (request) 765; cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel; deprecate.    ... show more

Dutch: deelnemen, delen, meeleven, meevoelen