| Main Entry: | commiseration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consolation |
Synonyms: |
compassion, condolence, pity, sympathy |
| Main Entry: | compassion |
| 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 |
| 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: | mercy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindness, compassion |
Synonyms: |
benevolence, benignancy, blessing, boon, charity, clemency, commiseration, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, generosity, gentleness, godsend, goodwill, grace, humanity, kindliness, lenience, leniency, lenity, lifesaver, luck, mildness, pity, quarter, relief, ruth, softheartedness, sympathy, tenderness, tolerance |
Antonyms: |
cruelty, intolerance, meanness, uncompassion |
| Main Entry: | pity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling of mercy toward another |
Synonyms: |
benevolence, charity, clemency, comfort, commiseration, compassion, compunction, condolement, condolence, dejection, distress, empathy, favor, forbearance, goodness, grace, humanity, kindliness, kindness, lenity, melancholy, mercy, philanthropy, quarter, rue, ruth, sadness, solace, sorrow, sympathy, tenderness, understanding, warmth |
Antonyms: |
disdain, malevolence, mercilessness |
| Main Entry: | sympathy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shared feeling |
Synonyms: |
accord, affinity, agreement, alliance, attraction, benignancy, close relation, commiseration, compassion, concord, congeniality, connection, correspondence, empathy, feelings, fellow feeling, harmony, heart, kindliness, kindness, mutual attraction, mutual fondness, rapport, responsiveness, sensitivity, tenderness, understanding, union, unity, warmheartedness, warmth |
Antonyms: |
disdain, incompatibility, indifference |
| Main Entry: | sympathy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pity |
Synonyms: |
aid, cheer, comfort, commiseration, compassion, condolence, consolation, empathy, encouragement, reassurance, rue, ruth, solace, tenderness, thoughtfulness, understanding |
Antonyms: |
callousness, indifference, mercilessness |
| Main Entry: | compassion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
| Concept: | Pity. |
| Category: | 2. Special Sympathetic Affections |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
pity, compassion, commiseration; bowels, of compassion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency (lenity); charity, ruth, long- suffering., melting mood; argumentum ad misericordiam, quarter, grace, locus paenititentiae., sympathizer; advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher.
-verbs
pity; have pity, show pity, take pity; commiserate, compassionate; condole; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of., forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis, give a coup de grace, put out of one's misery., raise pity, excite pity; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm., ask for mercy; supplicate (request); cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel; deprecate.
-adjectives
pitying; pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched., merciful, clement, ruthful; humane; humanitarian (philanthropic); tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken; soft, soft hearted; unhardened; lenient; exorable, forbearing; melting; weak.
-phrases
one's heart bleeding for; haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco [Vergil]; "a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind" [Garrick]; onor di bocca assai giova e poco
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Antonyms: |
pitilessness |
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| Concept: | Condolence. |
| Category: | 2. Special Sympathetic Affections |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
condolence; lamentation; sympathy, consolation.
-verbs
condole with, console, sympathize express pity, testify pity; afford consolation, supply consolation; lament with; express sympathy for; feel grief in common with, feel sorrow in common with; share one's sorrow.
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