pampathy

See also: Pampathy

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Etymology

Formed as pam- (“all”) +‎ -pathy (“feeling”) after sympathy, empathy, etc.

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Noun

pampathy (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy of religion, rare) The supposed faculty that causes its possessors to yearn to commune with the “All” of existence.
    • 1918, Édouard Le Roy, translated by Lydia Gillingham Robinson, What Is a Dogma?, page 5:
      It is a “pampathy” or all-feeling which produces in every individual a deep-felt longing to be at one with the whole universe of which each is a part.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pampathy.

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