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Fellow feeling   /fˈɛloʊ fˈilɪŋ/   Listen
Fellow feeling

noun
1.
Sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish).  Synonym: sympathy.






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"Fellow feeling" Quotes from Famous Books



... thoroughly rested this morning, and very glad of a fine day for a visit to the great cascade which is rarely seen by foreigners. My mule was slightly galled with the girth, and having a strong fellow feeling with Elisha's servant, "Alas, master, for it was borrowed!" I have bought for $20 a pretty, light, half-broken bay mare, which I rode to-day and ...
— The Hawaiian Archipelago • Isabella L. Bird

... Patches. "He reminds me of—of some one I know," he finished, with his old, self-mocking smile. "I have a fellow feeling for him, the same as you have for that wild horse, you know. I'd like to take him away from Nick, and see if it would be possible to make a real man of him," he mused, more to himself than ...
— When A Man's A Man • Harold Bell Wright

... were not a nation at all. A nation is free, governed by its own laws, one body of people, held together by one fellow feeling, one language, one blood, one religion; as we English are. We are a nation. The Jews were none in Egypt, no more than Negro slaves in America were a nation. They served a people of a different blood, as the Jews did in Egypt. They had no ...
— True Words for Brave Men • Charles Kingsley



Words linked to "Fellow feeling" :   kindheartedness, concern, commiseration, feeling, ruth, compatibility, empathy, pathos, pity, compassionateness, compassion, kind-heartedness



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