compassion

[Com*pas·sion]

If someone shows kindness, caring, and a willingness to help others, they're showing compassion.

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Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration.

Noun
the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it

Noun
a deep awareness of and sympathy for another''s suffering


n.
Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration.

v. t.
To pity.


Compassion

Com*pas"sion , n. [F., fr. L. compassio, fr. compati to have compassion; com- + pati to bear, suffer. See Patient.] Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration.
Womanly igenuity set to work by womanly compassion.
Syn. -- Pity; sympathy; commiseration; fellow-feeling; mercy; condolence. See Pity.

Compassion

Com*pas"sion, v. t. To pity. [Obs.] Shak.

Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration.

To pity.

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Usage Examples

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

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Other Usage Examples

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

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