taise — 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.
- doppelganger noun Someone who looks strikingly like another person, or a ghostly double of a living person.
- fetch verb To go and get something, then bring it back.
- relic noun An object that has survived from an earlier time, often valued for its age or history.
Senses
taise 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.
- doppelganger A ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts such a person.
- fetch (originally, Ireland, dialectal) The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith. [from 18th c.]
- relic (religion) A part of the body of a saint, or an ancient religious object, kept for veneration.