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fellow feelings

fellow feelings is the plural of fellow feeling.

Meaning of fellow feeling

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

Questions about fellow feelings

What is fellow feelings the plural of?
Fellow feelings is the plural of fellow feeling.

Words near fellow feelings in the dictionary

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

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