Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Compassion 

From Middle English compassioun, compassion, from Old French compassion, from Ecclesiastical Latin compassio (“sympathy”), from Latin compati, past participle compassus (“to suffer together with”), from com- (“together”) + pati (“to suffer”); see passion.

compassion (usually uncountable, plural compassions)

  1. Deep awareness of the suffering of another, coupled with the wish to relieve it. 


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