compassion
Noun
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A deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering (synset 107569189)
is a type of: fellow feeling, sympathy - sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)subtypes:
- heartstrings - your deepest feelings of love and compassion
- mellowness - a feeling of good humor and sympathy through maturity or intoxication or a relaxed state
- tenderheartedness, tenderness - warm compassionate feelings
- mercifulness, mercy - the feeling that motivates compassion
same as: compassionateness -
The humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it (synset 104836781)
is a type of: mercifulness, mercy - a disposition to be kind and forgivingsame as: pity
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