Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Compassion 

From Middle English compassiouncompassion, 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 uncountableplural compassions)

  1. Deep awareness of the suffering of anothercoupled with the wish to relieve it. 


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