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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 sufferingplay

  Familiarity information: COMPASSIONATENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COMPASSIONATENESS (noun)


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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