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.
  •lenience (noun)
  • broad mindedness,
  • Permissivenesses,
  • broad mindednesses,
  • broad-mindednesses,
  • broadmindednesses,
  • liberalnesses.
  •lenity (noun)
  • lenity.
  •mildness (noun)
  • mildness.
  •pity (noun)
  • humaneness,
  • mercy.
  •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.
  •tenderness (noun)
  • lovingnesses.
  •tolerance (noun)
  • liberalisms.
  •warmth (noun)
  • empressements.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • tolerance,
  • Ubuntu.
  •
  • identification.
  •mercy
  • quarter.
  •Other relevant words:
  • dismal,
  • hospitality,
  • regret,
  • mitigation,
  • miserable,
  • aspire,
  • patience,
  • pensive,
  • solicitude,
  • grave,
  • pitiful,
  • pardon,
  • gloomy,
  • goodness,
  • brotherhood,
  • ruth,
  • cordiality,
  • sympathetic,
  • love,
  • lamentable,
  • sensitivity,
  • condole with,
  • mournful,
  • lament,
  • large-heartedness,
  • disturb,
  • doleful,
  • depressed,
  • sad,
  • helpfulness,
  • moderateness,
  • big-heartedness,
  • caring,
  • thoughtfulness,
  • feel for,
  • clementness,
  • yearning,
  • good-heartedness,
  • self-pity,
  • humanity,
  • friendliness,
  • niceness,
  • largeheartedness,
  • affection,
  • attentiveness,
  • condole,
  • care,
  • bowels,
  • kindliness,
  • loving,
  • decency,
  • grieve,
  • sympathise,
  • victim,
  • benignity,
  • favour,
  • pityingly,
  • rueful,
  • melancholy,
  • long-suffering,
  • reproach,
  • acceptance,
  • lugubrious,
  • shame,
  • dolorous,
  • deplore,
  • concern,
  • easygoingness,
  • easiness,
  • compassionate,
  • mourn,
  • sympathize with,
  • interpret,
  • regard,
  • gather,
  • sorrowful,
  • pathos,
  • moderation,
  • empathise,
  • infer,
  • penitence,
  • geniality,
  • softness,
  • thought,
  • sadden,
  • consideration,
  • tenderheartedness,
  • read,
  • in sympathy with,
  • reprieve,
  • hurt,
  • Tender-heartedness,
  • considerateness,
  • wretch,
  • martyr,
  • sensibility,
  • compassionately,
  • benignancy,
  • favor,
  • pitying,
  • Open-heartedness,
  • deplorable,
  • depressing,
  • Indulgency,
  • grieve for,
  • indulgence,
  • compunction,
  • tact,
  • yearn,
  • appreciation,
  • solicitousness,
  • respect,
  • gentleness,
  • have mercy on,
  • charitableness,
  • sufferer,
  • amicability,
  • laxness,
  • sorrow,
  • affectionateness,
  • disgrace,
  • piteous,
  • relief,
  • commiserate,
  • Good Naturedness,
  • liberality,
  • Kind-heartedness,
  • languish,
  • forbearing,
  • wish,
  • bemoan,
  • dreary,
  • injure,
  • bewail,
  • sorry,
  • repent,
  • prey,
  • rue,
  • fellow-feeling.

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.