fellow-feeling love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kindred feeling; feeling or suffering shared with another; joint interest; sympathy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Sympathy; a like feeling.
  • noun obsolete Joint interest.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative form of fellow feeling.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)

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Examples

  • The oligarchical system sustains itself with well-told myths of internal solidarity and well-timed rituals to enhance fellow-feeling.

    Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic? Anis Shivani 2010

  • She was a “Zorina,” in honor of the famous ballet dancer Vera Zorina, who possessed, besides beauty and a goddesslike body, “what is lacking in this warring, man-ridden world: a sense of the continuity of life and perpetual sympathy, fellow-feeling, and consolation.”

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Bardamu, the protagonist of Celine's Journey to the End of the Night, is in many ways a pretty despicable character without much human fellow-feeling, but it's hard to deny that his narrative is powerful, his narrative voice compelling.

    Saying Something 2010

  • The oligarchical system sustains itself with well-told myths of internal solidarity and well-timed rituals to enhance fellow-feeling.

    Anis Shivani: Creative Writing Programs: Is The MFA System Corrupt And Undemocratic? Anis Shivani 2010

  • It was a facer to me, and with quite a pronounced fellow-feeling for

    CHAPTER VII 2010

  • But as even a cursory search of my blog reveals, I have no fellow-feeling whatsoever with the mediaeval-minded, gynocidal fanatics with whom the Canadian Forces are presently engaged.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • I smiled through the whole thing, sharing fellow-feeling with all of the new citizens -- not just as Americans, but as people who had overcome similar stresses and uncertainties to achieve their goal of becoming once and for all American.

    Robin Koerner: Twice the Pride: On Becoming an American Bipatriot Robin Koerner 2011

  • I smiled through the whole thing, sharing fellow-feeling with all of the new citizens -- not just as Americans, but as people who had overcome similar stresses and uncertainties to achieve their goal of becoming once and for all American.

    Robin Koerner: Twice the Pride: On Becoming an American Bipatriot Robin Koerner 2011

  • Whatever he might have thought of his theology, Cyril the Christian bishop would immediately have a strong fellow-feeling for al-Sadr the Islamic mullah.

    Any faith can become violent 2010

  • She was a “Zorina,” in honor of the famous ballet dancer Vera Zorina, who possessed, besides beauty and a goddesslike body, “what is lacking in this warring, man-ridden world: a sense of the continuity of life and perpetual sympathy, fellow-feeling, and consolation.”

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

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