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COMPASSIONATENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does compassionateness mean?
• COMPASSIONATENESS (noun)
The noun COMPASSIONATENESS has 1 sense:
1. a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering
Familiarity information: COMPASSIONATENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
compassion; compassionateness
Hypernyms ("compassionateness" is a kind of...):
fellow feeling; sympathy (sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "compassionateness"):
heartstrings (your deepest feelings of love and compassion)
mellowness (a feeling of good humor and sympathy through maturity or intoxication or a relaxed state)
tenderheartedness; tenderness (warm compassionate feelings)
mercifulness; mercy (the feeling that motivates compassion)
Derivation:
compassionate (showing or having compassion)
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