COMPASSION Synonyms

• understanding and entering into another's feelings

• the quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic

• tendency to be kind and forgiving

• a kind act

• leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice

• a disposition to be kind and forgiving

• the feeling that motivates compassion

• something for which to be thankful

• alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed

• disposition to do good

• an inclination to do kind or charitable acts

• an act intending or showing kindness and good will

• a foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals)

• a kindly and lenient attitude toward people

• an activity or gift that benefits the public at large

• pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers

• an institution set up to provide help to the needy

• an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion

• sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)

• a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other

• a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling

• a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)

• warm compassionate feelings

• a positive feeling of liking

• a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless)

• the cognitive condition of someone who understands

• the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises

• an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion

• the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination

• characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy

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

• the locus of feelings and intuitions

• the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body

• the courage to carry on

• an area that is approximately central within some larger region

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• an inclination or tendency of a certain kind

• a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines

• a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal)

• a positive feeling of liking

• a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it

• a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

• United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948)

• the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament

• a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died

• an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement

• sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

• something that causes great unhappiness

• the state of being sad

• feel grief

• warm compassionate feelings