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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word History, Word Explorer, Word Parts
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a feeling of sharing another's suffering, prompting a desire to relieve that suffering; commiseration; clemency.
Her compassion for the orphans led her to look for ways to help them.The ship's captain was a brutal man with no compassion.- synonyms:
- caritas, heart, kindness, mercy, pity, sympathy, tenderness, understanding
- antonyms:
- cruelty, heartlessness
- similar words:
- benevolence, charity, clemency, commiseration, empathy, humanity, kindliness, quarter
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condolence, consideration, consolation, feeling, goodness, mercy, philanthropy, understanding |
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Compassion comes from a Latin word that means "to suffer with another."
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