compassionateness

Definitions of compassionateness
  1. noun
    a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering
    synonyms: compassion
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    heartstrings
    your deepest feelings of love and compassion
    tenderheartedness, tenderness
    warm compassionate feelings
    mercifulness, mercy
    the feeling that motivates compassion
    forgiveness
    compassionate feelings that support a willingness to forgive
    type of:
    fellow feeling, sympathy
    sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)
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