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compersion

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Noun — Vicarious joy associated with seeing one's partner have a joyful romantic or sexual relationship with another person.

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Coined in the early 1990s by a group of members of the Kerista Commune, a polyamorous group based in San Francisco, California, U.S.A., in existence between 1956 and 1991, apparently randomly using an alphabet board (similar to a Ouija board), with -ion (suffix forming nouns). The hypothesis that the word is derived fr...

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