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    compassionate
    /kəmˈpaʃənət/

    adjective

    • 1. feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others: "I allowed him to go home on compassionate grounds"

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  2. Jun 20, 2024 · All about Compassion: What does compassion mean, and what are some different types of compassion? Explore this unique human response to others.

  3. 6 days ago · Compassionate people are not typically motivated by personal gain. Instead they manifest an aura of selflessness in their everyday lives. Selflessness is practically synonymous with compassion. A compassionate person prioritizes the needs of others over their own desires or needs, just like the taxi driver in my previous point.

  4. 5 days ago · As should be clear by now, the difference between empathy and sympathy depends upon the definitions used. In one view of empathy vs. sympathy, sympathy is empathy — either affective or cognitive — together with concern for another. On the other hand, sympathy is cognitive empathy, rather than affective empathy, together with concern for ...

  5. Jun 5, 2024 · Compassion is a profound emotional response that involves recognising the suffering of others and feeling motivated to help alleviate that suffering. It goes beyond merely acknowledging someone else’s pain and includes a strong desire to take action to relieve that distress, says psychologist Neha Dutt.

  6. Jun 20, 2024 · Self-compassion is a state of mind or a practice of thinking where you approach how you view your emotional response to events with kindness, gentleness, and warmth instead of judgment, guilt, and shame. Research indicates that self-compassion may improve self-regulation and stress.

  7. 5 days ago · Empathy is the ability to see things from another’s perspective and feel their emotions. Putting yourself in another person’s shoes might lead you to act with compassion and do what you can to improve their situation. In doing so, you can reduce the other person’s distress as well as your own.

  8. May 31, 2024 · Compassion is a sense of concern that arises when we are confronted with another's suffering and feel motivated to see that it is relieved...Compassion is what connects the feeling of empathy to acts of kindness, generosity, and other expressions of altruistic tendencies.