compassion
Pronunciation: /kəmˈpæʃ.ən/
The English word “compassion” has 3 meanings listed here.
noun
- Deep awareness of the suffering of others that people have to the point of them being motivated to relieve such states.
- Deep awareness of the individual experiences of suffering of others or themselves that people have to the point of them being motivated to relieve such experiences, as reflected by the psychological term self-compassion.
verb
- To pity.
Etymology
From Middle English compassioun, compassion, from Old French compassion, from Ecclesiastical Latin compassio (“sympathy”), from Latin compati, past participle compassus (“to suffer together with”), from com- (“together”) + pati (“to suffer”); see passion. By surface analysis, com- + passion.
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More English words
- compassable
- compassed
- compasser
- compassing
- compassion fatigue
- compassionable
- compassionate
- compassionate conservatism
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