English Explanatory Dictionary

compassion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Deep awareness of the suffering of others that people have to the point of them being motivated to relieve such states.
  2. 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.
verb
  1. To pity.

Pronunciation

/kəmˈpæʃ.ən/ en-us-compassion.ogg

Word forms

compassion compassions compassioning compassioned

Etymology

From Middle English compassioun, compassion, from Old French compassion, from Ecclesiastical Latin compassio (“sympathy”), from Latin compati, past participle compassus (“to suffer together with”), from com- (“together”) + pati (“to suffer”); see passion.

Synonyms

empathy mercy ruth pity sorrow tenderheartedness bowels commiseration compassion fellow feeling remorse rue sympathy loving-kindness kindness heart commiserate feel sorry for compassionate condole feel someone's pain mercify take pity

Antonyms

compassionlessness pitilessness ruthlessness uncompassion unpity

Related words

compatible passion what a pity

Derived words

compassionable compassionate compassion fatigue compassionless incompassion self-compassion uncompassion uncompassioned

Translations

Albanian: mëshirë Arabic: رَحْمَة Arabic: شَفَقَة Armenian: կարեկցանք Azerbaijani: şəfqət Azerbaijani: rəhm Belarusian: спачува́нне Belarusian: спага́да Bengali: করুণা Bulgarian: състрада́ние Bulgarian: съчу́вствие Burmese: ကရုဏာ Burmese: အကြင်နာ Catalan: compassió Cebuano: kaluoy Cherokee: ᎤᏓᏙᎵᏣᏘ Chinese Mandarin: 同情 Chinese Mandarin: 愛心 /爱心 Czech: soustrast Czech: soucit Danish: medfølelse Danish: medlidenhed Dutch: medelijden Dutch: deernis Esperanto: kompato Estonian: kaastunne Finnish: myötätunto Finnish: osanotto French: compassion Georgian: თანაგრძნობა German: Mitleid German: Erbarmen German: Mitgefühl Gothic: 𐌼𐌹𐌻𐌳𐌹𐌸𐌰 Gothic: 𐌰𐍂𐌼𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍄𐌴𐌹 Greek: συμπόνια Greek: ευσπλαχνία Ancient Greek: οἰκτιρμός Ancient Greek: συμπάθεια Hebrew: רַחֲמִים Hebrew: חֶמְלָה Hebrew: אֶמְפַּתְיָה Hindi: दया Hindi: करुणा Hindi: संवेदना Hindi: सहानुभूति Hungarian: együttérzés Ido: kompato Indonesian: belas kasih Irish: trua Irish: taise Italian: compassione Japanese: 同情 Kalmyk: уйдвр Kazakh: жаны ашу Khmer: មេត្តាធម៌ Khmer: មេត្តា Korean: 동정 Kyrgyz: боорукердик Kyrgyz: кайрымдуулук Lao: ເມດຕາ Latin: misericordia Latvian: līdzjūtība
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