Compassion

Noun

 * 1) Deep awareness of the suffering of another, coupled with the wish to relieve it

Adjectives for Compassion
pitying; proud; deep; sincere; involuntary; august; womanly; delicate; angelic; bleeding;  intolerable;  melancholy;   infinite; chivalrous; moving; affectionate; protective; scornful; profound; hurried; infallible; tender; faint; sweet; bored; dying; divine.

Verbs for Compassion
act in—; arouse—; conceal—; consume with—; contain—; display—; excite—; express—; feign—; fill with—; melt in— minister with—; mourn in—; move to— plead for—; pretend—; reveal—; stir to— succor in—; take—upon; touch with— weep in—; wrack with—; wring with— —humanizes; —tempers.

Synonyms for Compassion

 * empathy, pity, tenderheartedness, sorrow
 * kindness, heart, mercy

Derived terms

 * compassionate

Related terms

 * compatible

Thesaurus
empathy, favor, feeling, feeling of kinship, fellow feeling, forbearance, forbearing, forgiveness, fraternal feeling, gentleness, goodness, goodness of heart, grace, graciousness, heart of gold, humaneness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindly disposition, kindness, laxness, lenience, leniency, lenientness, lenity, loving kindness, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, mitigation, moderateness, niceness, pardon, pathos, patience, pity, quarter, relief, reprieve, rue, ruth, self-pity, softheartedness, softness, soul of kindness, sympathy, tenderheartedness, tenderness, tolerance, warmheartedness, warmth, warmth of heart