compersive

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compersive

  1. Pertaining to or exhibiting compersion.
    • 2010, Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly Planet, →ISBN:
      —which (according to Lovelock's predictions) could be as little as just Antarctica—we will have to be very symbiotic and compersive indeed.
    • 2015, Jillian Deri, Love's Refraction: Jealousy and Compersion in Queer Women's Polyamorous Relationships, →ISBN:
      Whether poly people as a whole have achieved the intended compersive intimacy is debatable, [...]
    • 2015, Opening Love, →ISBN:
      It's one thing, people say, to be compersive about a colleague's success, but it's quite another to feel happy about your partner being intimate with someone other than you. Yet, it is possible to cultivate compersion in any social situation, [...]