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| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
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| 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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