Word Meanings - COMPASSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration.

• Excitation
  The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
• ANOTHERGAINES
  Of another kind. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
• Excitative
  Having power to excite; tending or serving to excite; excitatory.
• ANOTHERGATES
  Of another sort. [Obs.] "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
• Sensational
  Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves.
• ANOTHERGUESS
  Of another sort. [Archaic] It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• Another-gaines
  Of another kind.
• Excitatory
  Tending to excite; containing excitement; excitative.
• Sensationalism
  The doctrine held by Condillac, and by some ascribed to Locke, that our ideas originate solely in sensation, and consist of sensations transformed; sensualism; -- opposed to intuitionalism, and rationalism.
• EXCITOMOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• Another-gates
  Of another sort.
• Sensationalist
  An advocate of, or believer in, philosophical sensationalism.
• EXCITOMOTOR
  Excitomotory; as, excito-motor power or causes.
• Another-guess
  Of another sort.

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