Usually means: Sharing sorrow, offering mutual comfort.
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  1. commiseration: Merriam-Webster
  2. commiseration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. commiseration: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. commiseration: Collins English Dictionary
  5. commiseration: Vocabulary.com
  6. Commiseration, commiseration: Wordnik
  7. commiseration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. commiseration: Wiktionary
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  10. commiseration: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. commiseration: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Commiseration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. commiseration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. commiseration: Rhymezone
  15. Commiseration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. commiseration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. commiseration: FreeDictionary.org
  18. commiseration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. commiseration: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. commiseration: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. commiseration: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The act of commiserating; sorrow for the hardships or afflictions of another; pity; compassion.

Similar:
condolence, pity, ruth, pathos, commensation, commune, compo, sympathy, complicity, commensuration, more...

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great, much, deepest, least, general, sincerest, profound, mutual, exciting, universal, self

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Similar:
condolence, pity, ruth, pathos, commensation, commune, compo, sympathy, complicity, commensuration, more...

Adjectives:
great, much, deepest, least, general, sincerest, profound, mutual, exciting, universal, self

Colors:
    gray,     navy blue,     charcoal,     deep purple,     maroon, more...



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