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compassion
- 1) noun, a feeling of distress and pity for the suffering or misfortune of another, often including the desire to alleviate it
Etymology
C14: from Old French, from Late Latin compassiō fellow feeling, from compatī to suffer with, from Latin com- with + patī to bear, suffer
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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kindness, sympathy, understanding, charity, pity, humanity, mercy, heart, quarter, sorrow, tender, condolence, clemency, commiserate, fellow feeling, aroha (N.Z.)