compassion
/kəmˈpæʃ·ən/ n [U]Definition
› a strong feeling of sympathy and sadness for other people’s suffering or bad luck and a desire to help compassionate /kəmˈpæʃ·ə·nət/ adj › a compassionate man
(Definition of compassion n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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