fellow-feeling
fellow-feeling is the alternative form of fellow feeling.
Meaning of fellow feeling
Noun
fellow feeling (usually uncountable, plural fellow feelings)
- A sense of sympathy for, consideration of, or shared interests with one or more other human beings.
- But here my heart is wrung with pity and fellow feeling, when I reflect what miseries must have been their lot, and how bitterly so refined a people must have smarted, to have forced them upon the use of it.1768, Mr. Yorick [pseudonym; Laurence Sterne], A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- empathy, sympathy, bowels, commiseration, compassion, mercy, pity, remorse, rue, ruth
Forms of fellow-feeling
| plural | fellow-feelings |
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Questions about fellow-feeling
- What is fellow-feeling the alternative form of?
- Fellow-feeling is the alternative form of fellow feeling.
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