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fellow feeling

fellow feeling noun: a sense of sympathy for, consideration of, or shared interests with one or more other human beings.

Noun

fellow feeling (usually uncountable, plural fellow feelings)

  1. (usually) 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
    • [I]s the character and property of the man, who labours for our intellectual pleasures, less entitled to a share of our fellow feeling, than that of the wine-merchant or milliner?1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, chapter 2, in Biographia Literaria

fellow feeling meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam

fellow feeling in Tamil

இன உணர்வு, இரக்கம், ஒப்பரவு உணர்வு

fellow feeling in Bengali

fellow feeling
সহানুভূতি śohanubhuti

fellow feeling in Malayalam

feeling, sympathy, empathy
സഹാനുഭൂതി, അനുകമ്പ, സഹജാവബോധം, അനുഭാവം, അനുക്രോശം, രാഗം

Synonyms of fellow feeling

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Forms of fellow feeling

pluralfellow feelings
alternative formfellow-feeling

Questions about fellow feeling

What does fellow feeling mean?
Fellow feeling means a sense of sympathy for, consideration of, or shared interests with one or more other human beings.
What is fellow feeling in Tamil?
Fellow feeling in Tamil is இன உணர்வு, இரக்கம், ஒப்பரவு உணர்வு. See Fellow feeling meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fellow feeling?
Fellow feeling is a noun.
What is the plural of fellow feeling?
The plural of fellow feeling is fellow feelings.

Words near fellow feeling in the dictionary

  1. fellness
  2. felloe
  3. felloes
  4. fellow
  5. fellow citizen
  6. fellow feeling
  7. fellow feelings
  8. fellow man
  9. fellow me lad
  10. fellow me lads
  11. fellow men

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fellow feeling (page history and authors); fellow feeling (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); সহানুভূতি (Bengali) (page history and authors); fellow feeling (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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