Usually means: Empathy and kindness towards others.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. compassion: Merriam-Webster
  2. compassion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. compassion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. compassion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. compassion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Compassion, compassion: Wordnik
  7. compassion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. compassion: Wiktionary
  9. compassion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. compassion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. compassion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Compassion, compassion: Dictionary.com
  13. compassion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. compassion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Compassion (Cecil McBee album), Compassion (Doctor Who), Compassion (Forest Swords album), Compassion (Royal Coda album), Compassion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Compassion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. compassion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. compassion: Rhymezone
  19. compassion, compassion (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. compassion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. compassion: FreeDictionary.org
  22. compassion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. compassion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. compassion: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. compassion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compassion: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compassion: Medical dictionary

(Note: See compassionless as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Deep awareness of the suffering of another, coupled with the wish to relieve it.
verb:  (obsolete) To pity.

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