Thesaurus:compassion

Thesaurus

compassion

English

Noun

Sense: a feeling of sympathy for the misfortune, suffering or misery of another

Synonyms

• bowels (archaic)
• commiseration
• compassion
• empathy (looser usage)
• fellow feeling
• mercy
• pity    [⇒ thesaurus]
• remorse    [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
• rue (archaic, dialect)
• ruth (archaic)
• sympathy
• tenderheartedness

Antonyms

• compassionlessness
• pitilessness
• ruthlessness
• uncompassion
• unpity

Hyponyms

• empathy (stricter usage)
• self-pity

Hypernyms

• sadness    [⇒ thesaurus]
• sympathy

See also

• Thesaurus:pity (verb)
• Thesaurus:what a pity (interjection)

Further reading

• “914. pity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “compassion” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.