a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

an expression of sympathy with another's grief

showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity

An expression of such feeling, A tendency to support a position or opinion, Feeling identical with or resembling that which another feels; the quality or state of being affected with feelings or emotions corresponding in kind if not in degree to those which another experiences_ said of pleasure or pain, but especially of the latter; fellow-feeling; commiseration; compassion