compassion
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< Middle English < Old French < Late Latin compassio (“‘sympathy’”) < compati, pp. compassus (“‘to suffer together with’”) < Latin com- (“‘together’”) + pati (“‘to suffer’”); see passion.
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- Rhymes: -æʃən
[edit] Noun
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compassion (uncountable)
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deep awareness of the suffering of another
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[edit] External links
- compassion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- compassion in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911