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FELLOW FEELING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)
Synonyms:
fellow feeling; sympathy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("fellow feeling" is a kind of...):
feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fellow feeling"):
concern (a feeling of sympathy for someone or something)
kind-heartedness; kindheartedness (sympathy arising from a kind heart)
compassion; compassionateness (a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering)
commiseration; pathos; pity; ruth (a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others)
compatibility (a feeling of sympathetic understanding)
empathy (understanding and entering into another's feelings)
