a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

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