Condolence

Noun

 * 1)  comfort, support or sympathy
 * 2)  An expression of comfort, support, or sympathy offered to the family and friends of somebody who has died

Thesaurus
aid and comfort, assurance, benevolence, clemency, comfort, commiseration, compassion, consolation, easement, encouragement, favor, feeling, forbearance, forgiveness, grace, humanity, kindness, leniency, mercy, mitigation, pardon, pathos, pity, quarter, reassurance, relief, reprieve, ruth, self-pity, shred of comfort, solace, solacement, support, sympathy

Derived terms

 * book of condolence