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compassion
 
Noun compassion has 2 senses
  1. compassion, compassionateness - a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering
    --1 is a kind of sympathy, fellow feeling
    --1 has particulars:
     heartstrings; tenderness, tenderheartedness; mercifulness, mercy
    Derived form: verb compassionate1
  2. compassion, pity - the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it
    --2 is a kind of mercifulness, mercy
    Derived form: verb compassionate1
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