Definition for Compassion:

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

Synonyms for Compassion:

• n.

  •
  • affinity,
  • understanding,
  • condolences,
  • sentiment.
  •attribute (noun)
  • compassion.
  •benevolence (noun)
  • charity,
  • altruism,
  • motherliness,
  • good will,
  • generosity,
  • beneficence,
  • kindness,
  • philanthropy,
  • bountifulness,
  • magnanimity,
  • neighborliness,
  • munificence,
  • unselfishness.
  •benignity (noun)
  • warm-heartednesses,
  • warm heartedness,
  • big heartedness,
  • warm heartednesses,
  • graciousnesses.
  •charitableness (noun)
  • humanitarianisms.
  •clemency (noun)
  • lifesavers,
  • soft heartedness,
  • soft heartednesses,
  • soft-heartednesses,
  • caritases,
  • softheartednesses,
  • sufferances.
  •comfort (noun)
  • re lief,
  • secour,
  • re-lief.
  •condolence (noun)
  • Condolement.
  •empathy (noun)
  • good vibration,
  • cottoning tos,
  • community interest,
  • community interests,
  • in-sights,
  • in sights,
  • picking up ons,
  • picking upon,
  • being same wavelength,
  • re cognitions,
  • hitting offs,
  • hitting it offs,
  • picking ons,
  • in-sight,
  • re-cognition,
  • re cognition.
  •feeling (noun)
  • sensitivities.
  •fellow feeling (noun)
  • fellow feeling.
  •forgiveness (noun)
  • clemency,
  • remittal,
  • indemnity.
  •generosity (noun)
  • kindheartedness.
  •grace (noun)
  • compassionatenesses.
  •heart (noun)
  • dis position,
  • dis-position,
  • dis-positions,
  • dis positions.
  •humanity (noun)
  • brotherly loves.
  •pity (noun)
  • humaneness,
  • mercy.
  •quarter (noun)
  • quarter.
  •remorse (noun)
  • self reproaches,
  • ruefulnesses,
  • selfreproach,
  • re morse,
  • re-morses,
  • re-morse,
  • self-reproaches,
  • selfreproaches,
  • pangs conscience,
  • self reproach,
  • re morses.
  •sweetness (noun)
  • docility,
  • docilities,
  • Sweetness.
  •sympathy (noun)
  • study at pity.
  •tender feeling (noun)
  • humanity,
  • consideration,
  • compunction,
  • softness,
  • yearning,
  • tenderheartedness,
  • sorrow,
  • lenity.
  •tenderness (noun)
  • lovingnesses.
  •thought (noun)
  • thought.
  •tolerance (noun)
  • liberalisms.
  •warmth (noun)
  • empressements.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • tolerance,
  • Ubuntu.
  •
  • identification.

Paraphrases for Compassion:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    sympathy, empathy, pity.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    passion.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    affection, condolence, emotion, kindness, sensitivity, clemency, comprehension, understanding, humanitarianism, participation.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    compassionate.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    caring, compassionate, solidarity, humanity, Warm-heartedness, concern.

Antonyms for Compassion:

• n.

  • tender feeling
    cruelty, tyranny, ill will, meanness.
  • Other antonyms:
    penalty, animosity, Implacability, callousness, pitilessness, antipathy, disinterest, mercilessness, unconcern, vengeance, indifference, hostility, harshness, rigor, justice, sternness, insensitivity, hatred, severity, punishment, coldheartedness, dislike, hardness, revenge, coldness.

Compassion Sentence Examples:

• I am infinitely obliged for your compassion, Mr. Lane.

• One could not help feeling a thrill of compassion at the tragic end of such a promising career.

Hypernym for Compassion:

• n.

  • feeling
    mercifulness, mellowness, mercy, tenderheartedness, tenderness, heartstrings.

Hyponym for Compassion:

• n.

  • attribute
    mercifulness, mercy.
  • feeling
    sympathy, fellow feeling.