compassion

Main Entry:
compassion [kuhm-pash-uhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: tender feeling
Synonyms: benevolence, charity, clemency, commiseration, compunction, condolence, consideration, empathy, fellow feeling, grace, heart, humaneness, humanity, kindness, lenity, mercy, softheartedness, softness, sorrow, sympathy, tenderheartedness, tenderness, yearning
Antonyms: cruelty, harshness, hatred, indifference, meanness, mercilessness, tyranny
Main Entry: benevolence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: charity
Synonyms: altruism, amity, comity, compassion, feeling, friendliness, friendship, generosity, gift, good will, goodness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindness, sympathy
Antonyms: animosity, greediness, ill will, malevolence, meanness, selfishness, spite, unkindness
Main Entry: clemency
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: forgiveness
Synonyms: caritas, charity, compassion, endurance, equitableness, fairness, forbearance, gentleness, grace, humanity, indulgence, justness, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, lifesaver, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, moderation, soft-heartedness, sufferance, tenderness, tolerance, toleration
Antonyms: no mercy
Main Entry: comfort
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: aid, help
Synonyms: alleviation, assist, compassion, compensation, consolation, encouragement, hand, lift, pity, relief, secours, solace, succor, support, sympathy
Antonyms: hindrance, hurt, injury, torment, torture
Main Entry: condolence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sympathy
Synonyms: comfort, commiseration, compassion, condolement, consolation, fellow feeling, solace
Notes: condolence and sympathy are parallel formations going back to Latin condolere and Greek sumpatheia, meaning 'together-suffering'
Main Entry: consolation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: relief, comfort
Synonyms: alleviation, assuagement, cheer, comfort, compassion, ease, easement, encouragement, fellow feeling, help, lenity, pity, solace, succor, support, sympathy
Notes: solace is a form of comfort given to one who is in sorrow or distress; consolation is an act of offering such comfort, or the result of such comfort having been provided
Antonyms: agitation, annoyance, antagonism, discouragement, disturbance, trouble, upset
Main Entry: courtesy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: favor, indulgence
Synonyms: accommodation, benevolence, bounty, charity, chivalry, compassion, consent, consideration, dispensation, generosity, kindness, liberality, service, unselfishness
Antonyms: discourtesy, disfavor, disregard
Main Entry: empathy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: understanding
Synonyms: affinity, appreciation, being on same wavelength, being there for someone, communion, community of interests, compassion, comprehension, concord, cottoning to, good vibrations, hitting it off, insight, picking up on, pity, rapport, recognition, responsiveness, soul, sympathy, warmth
Notes: empathy denotes a deep emotional understanding of another's feelings or problems, while sympathy is more general and can apply to small annoyances or setbacks
sympathy means the stimulation in a person of feelings that are similar in kind to those that affect another person; empathy means a mental or affective projection into the feelings or state of mind of another person
Antonyms: apathy, misunderstanding, unfeelingness
Main Entry: feeling
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: a state of mind, often strong
Synonyms: action, affection, appreciation, ardor, behavior, capacity, compassion, concern, cultivation, culture, delicacy, discernment, discrimination, emotion, empathy, faculty, fervor, fondness, heat, imagination, impression, intelligence, intensity, intuition, judgment, keenness, palpability, passion, pathos, pity, reaction, refinement, sensibility, sensitivity, sentiment, sentimentality, sharpness, spirit, sympathy, tangibility, taste, tenderness, understanding, warmth
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