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compassion

noun
/kəmˈpæʃ.ən/UK

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from compati
  2. derived from compassio
  3. derived from compassion
  4. inherited from compassioun

Definitions

  1. Deep awareness of the suffering of others that people have to the point of them being…

    Deep awareness of the suffering of others that people have to the point of them being motivated to relieve such states.

    • Oh! the unspeakable privilege to have Him for our Father, who is the Father of mercies and compassions, and those not barren, fruitless pityings, for He is withal the God of all consolations.
    • Other people's problems, they overwhelm my mind / They say compassion is a virtue, but I don't have the time
    • In many ways, people today lack compassion as a way to internalize and experience the inner soul of the other person, animals, and the universe. We need to reintroduce compassion so humanity may survive.

  2. Deep awareness of the individual experiences of suffering of others or themselves that…

    Deep awareness of the individual experiences of suffering of others or themselves that people have to the point of them being motivated to relieve such experiences, as reflected by the psychological term self-compassion.

    • Similarly to the practice of loving kindness, meditation on compassion towards our own experience builds the foundation for expansion of the circle of compassion towards others.
    • True leadership lies in compassion, not in coercion.

  3. To pity.

    • O heavens, can you hear a good man groan / And not relent, or not compassion him?
    • Both wanted in early life the one thing essential to every individual, of whatever nature or degree of intellect, a kind, compassioning adviser; - a true friend;[…].
    • The widow's tears flowed wildly. / But Oh! a harbinger of life approached — / God, manifest in flesh — compassioned her, / And bade her weep no more.

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Derived

compassionable, compassionate, compassion fatigue, compassionless, incompassion, self-compassion, uncompassion

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at compassion. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at compassion. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at compassion

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA