medfølelse — meaning in English
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English meaning
- compassion noun A deep sense of concern for someone else's suffering, strong enough to make you want to help.
- sympathy noun A feeling of pity or sorrow for someone else's suffering or misfortune.
Senses
medfølelse is used for these senses in English:
- compassion (by extension, psychology) Deep awareness of the individual experiences of suffering of others or themselves that people have to the point of them being motivated to relieve such experiences, as reflected by the psychological term self-compassion.
- sympathy A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.
sympathy — full definition
- noun A feeling of pity or sorrow for someone else's suffering or misfortune.
- noun Shared feeling, agreement, or support for an idea, cause, or person.