pampathy
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See also: Pampathy
English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Formed as pam- (“all”) + -pathy (“feeling”) after sympathy, empathy, etc.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
pampathy (uncountable)
- (philosophy of religion, rare) The supposed faculty that causes its possessors to yearn to commune with the “All” of existence.
- 1918, Édouard Le Roy, translated by Lydia Gillingham Robinson, What Is a Dogma?, page 5:
- It is a “pampathy” or all-feeling which produces in every individual a deep-felt longing to be at one with the whole universe of which each is a part.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pampathy.
Translations[edit]
all-feeling causing yearning for universal community