different between feeling vs compassion
feeling
English
Etymology
From Middle English felyng, equivalent to feel +? -ing.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?fi?l??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?fil??/
- Rhymes: -i?l??
Adjective
feeling (comparative more feeling, superlative most feeling)
- Emotionally sensitive.
- Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling.
- Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
- He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
Translations
Noun
feeling (plural feelings)
- Sensation, particularly through the skin.
- The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling.
- Emotion; impression.
- The house gave me a feeling of dread.
- (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
- You really hurt my feelings when you said that.
- (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
- Many people still have feelings for their first love.
- Intuition.
- He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.
- I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.
- 1987, The Pogues - Fairytale of New York
- Got on a lucky one
- Came in eighteen to one
- I've got a feeling
- This year's for me and you
- An opinion, an attitude.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
feeling
- present participle of feel
Derived terms
- feeling no pain
Anagrams
- fine leg, fleeing, flingee
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English feeling.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi.li?/
Noun
feeling m (plural feelings)
- instinct, hunch
Anagrams
- églefin
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English feeling.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fi.li?/
Noun
feeling m (invariable)
- an intense and immediate current of likability that is established between two people; feeling
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- filing
Noun
feeling m
- feeling, hunch
Synonyms
- osje?aj
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English feeling.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?filin/, [?fi.l?n]
Noun
feeling m (plural feelings)
- feeling, hunch
- spark; attraction; feeling
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compassion
English
Etymology
From Middle English compassioun, compassion, from Old French compassion, from Ecclesiastical Latin compassio (“sympathy”), from Latin compati, past participle compassus (“to suffer together with”), from com- (“together”) + pati (“to suffer”); see passion.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /k?m?pæ?.?n/
- Rhymes: -æ??n
Noun
compassion (usually uncountable, plural compassions)
- Deep awareness of the suffering of another, coupled with the wish to relieve it.
- 1849, Robert Leighton (Archbishop of Glasgow), A practical commentary upon the first Epistle of St. Peter (page 47)
- Oh! the unspeakable privilege to have Him for our Father, who is the Father of mercies and compassions, and those not barren, fruitless pityings, for He is withal the God of all consolations.
- 1849, Robert Leighton (Archbishop of Glasgow), A practical commentary upon the first Epistle of St. Peter (page 47)
Synonyms
- (deep awareness of another's suffering): empathy, mercy, ruth, pity, sorrow, tenderheartedness
- (desire to relieve another's suffering): kindness, heart, mercy, ruth, tenderheartedness
Derived terms
- compassionable
- compassionate
- compassion fatigue
Related terms
- compatible
- passion
Translations
Verb
compassion (third-person singular simple present compassions, present participle compassioning, simple past and past participle compassioned)
- (obsolete) To pity.
- 1607, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, IV. i. 124:
- O heavens, can you hear a good man groan / And not relent, or not compassion him?
- 1830, The Last of the Supernaturalists, in James Fraser (editor), Fraser's Magazine, Volume 1, page 226,
- Both wanted in early life the one thing essential to every individual, of whatever nature or degree of intellect, a kind, compassioning adviser; - a true friend; […] .
- 1607, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, IV. i. 124:
Further reading
- compassion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- compassion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin compassi?, compassi?nem, from Latin compatior.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.pa.sj??/
Noun
compassion f (plural compassions)
- compassion, pity
Related terms
- compatir
- passion
Further reading
- “compassion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Noun
compassion
- Alternative form of compassioun
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