Best Alternative Words for PITIFULNESS
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compassion | nounn | |||||||
noun • a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering • the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it | ||||||||
dejection | nounn | |||||||
noun • a state of melancholy depression • solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | ||||||||
desolation | nounn | |||||||
noun • the state of being decayed or destroyed • a bleak and desolate atmosphere • sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned • an event that results in total destruction | ||||||||
distress | nounn | |||||||
noun • psychological suffering • a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need) • extreme physical pain • the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim verb • bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship • cause mental pain to | ||||||||
empathy | nounn | |||||||
noun • understanding and entering into another's feelings | ||||||||
heartbreak | nounn | |||||||
noun • intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | ||||||||
miserableness | nounn | |||||||
noun • a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | ||||||||
mournfulness | nounn | |||||||
noun • a state of gloomy sorrow | ||||||||
pathos | nounn | |||||||
noun • a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) • a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others • a style that has the power to evoke feelings | ||||||||
sadness | nounn | |||||||
noun • emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being • the state of being sad • the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness | ||||||||
sorrow | nounn | |||||||
noun • 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 verb • feel grief | ||||||||
sympathy | nounn | |||||||
noun • 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 | ||||||||
woefulness | nounn | |||||||
noun • intense mournfulness | ||||||||
wretchedness | nounn | |||||||
noun • a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune • the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant • the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry | ||||||||
lamentableness | nounn | |||||||
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piteousness | nounn | |||||||
noun • The condition of being piteous |