compassion
Deep awareness of the suffering of others that people have to the point of them being motivated to relieve such states.
Noun 2 meanings
Deep awareness of the suffering of others that people have to the point of them being motivated to relieve such states.
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.
“True leadership lies in compassion, not in coercion.”
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. By surface analysis, com- + passion.
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COMPASSION at a glance
COMPASSION has 10 letters and scores 16 points in Scrabble (C 3 + O 1 + M 3 + P 3 + A 1 + S 1 + S 1 + I 1 + O 1 + N 1) and 20 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,547 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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