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com·mis·er·a·tion
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commiseration
Pity is a feeling of grief or pain aroused by the weakness, misfortunes, or distresses of others, joined with a desire to help or relieve. Sympathy (feeling or suffering with) implies some degree of equality, kindred, or union; pity is for what is weak or unfortunate, and so far, at least, inferior to ourselves; hence, pity is often resented where sympathy would be welcome. We have sympathy with one in joy or grief, in pleasure or pain, pity only for those in suffering or need; we may have sympathy with the struggles of a giant or the triumphs of a conqueror; we are moved with pity for the captive or the slave. Pity may be only in the mind, but mercy does something for those who are its objects. Compassion, like pity, is exercised only with respect to the suffering or unfortunate, but combines with the tenderness of pity the dignity of sympathy and the active quality of mercy. Commiseration is as tender as compassion, but more remote and hopeless; we have commiseration for sufferers whom we can not reach or can not relieve. Condolence is the expression of sympathy. Compare MERCY.
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compassion, condolence, mercy, pity, sympathy, tendernessAntonyms:
barbarity, brutality, cruelty, ferocity, hard-heartedness, hardness, harshness, inhumanity, mercilessness, pitilessness, rigor, ruthlessness, severity, sternness, truculencePreposition:
>Pity on or upon that which we help or spare; pity for that which we merely contemplate; "have pity upon me, O ye my friends," Job xix, 21; "pity for a horse o'erdriven,"Tennyson In Memoriam lxii, st. 1.
Princeton's WordNet
commiseration, pity, ruth, pathosnoun
a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
"the blind are too often objects of pity"
Synonyms:
compassion, poignancy, ruth, pathos, shame, pity, condolencecondolence, commiserationnoun
an expression of sympathy with another's grief
"they sent their condolences"
Synonyms:
condolence, pathos, pity, ruth
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
commiserationnoun
Synonyms:
compassion, sympathy, pity, condolence, fellow-feeling
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Gerry's voice accompanied our biggest nights. Gerry Marsden anthem bonded players, staff and fans around the world, helping create something truly special, sung in times of both celebration and commiseration, Gerry's interpretation of You'll Never Walk Alone will forever be inextricably linked to the club he loved.
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