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Compassion

/kəmˈpæʃən/
A feeling of wanting to help someone who is suffering

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Examples:

You have no compassion on my poor nerves.'She ached with compassion for the middle-aged star.Her situation should secure your compassion.

Etymology:

etymology
Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin compassionem (nominative compassio), meaning to suffer together from Latin com- (with) + pati (to suffer). First known use in the 14th century.

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