Thesaurus:compassion
English
Noun
Sense: a feeling of sympathy for the misfortune, suffering or misery of another
Synonyms
- bowels (archaic)
- commiseration
- compassion
- empathy (looser usage)
- fellow feeling
- mercy
- pity [⇒ thesaurus]
- remorse [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
- rue (archaic, dialect)
- ruth (archaic)
- sympathy
- tenderheartedness
- loving-kindness
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See also
- Thesaurus:pity (verb)
- Thesaurus:what a pity (interjection)
Further reading
- “914. pity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “compassion” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.