compassion

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   Deep awareness of the suffering of others that people have to the point of them being motivated to relieve such states.uncountableusually

   • Oh! the unspeakable privilege to have Him for our Father, who is the Father of mercies and compassions, and those not barren, fruitless pityings, for He is withal the God of all consolations.
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   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.broadlyuncountableusually

   • True leadership lies in compassion, not in coercion.

syn. empathy · mercy · ruth · pity · sorrow · tenderheartedness · bowels · commiseration · compassion · fellow feeling · remorse · rue

ant. compassionlessness · pitilessness · ruthlessness · uncompassion · unpity

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   To pity.obsolete

   • O heavens, can you hear a good man groan / And not relent, or not compassion him?
   • Both wanted in early life the one thing essential to every individual, of whatever nature or degree of intellect, a kind, compassioning adviser; - a true friend;[…].