fellow feeling
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4.5
- noun
- /ˈfɛloʊ ˈfiːlɪŋ/
:
empatía
- Nora felt a fellow feeling with her mother.
- fellow feeling and solidarity
So they, they see another animal of their own sort and they feel a kind of fellow feeling towards it.
- So they, they see another animal of their own sort and they feel a kind of fellow feeling towards it.
- Well, fellow feeling or national or, or, or patriotic solidarity with your own countrymen is a virtue.
Examples
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I worked up a lot of fellow feeling for the amazing fellow.
Fiction book (1995) -
If you have, you certainly don't seem to show much fellow feeling about it.
Blog text (14) -
So they, they see another animal of their own sort and they feel a kind of fellow feeling towards it.
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" As it happens, I have a bit of fellow feeling for you.
Fiction book (1992) -
Thanks for the fellow feeling and also for the link.
Blog text (28) -
But what if the combination doesn't work? What if the fellow feeling doesn't flow freely?
Academic text (2011) -
The Public and Its Problems looked forward to a time when the intimacy and fellow-feeling of small-town America could be replicated on a national scale.
Academic text (1997) -
Defining the nature of Christian devotion, Hugh posits three expressions of fellow-feeling, with compassion at the center.
Academic text (2008) -
Our joy for the deliverance of those heroes of tragedy or romance who interest us is as sincere as our grief for their distress, and our fellow-feeling with their misery is not more real than that with their happiness...
Academic text (2010) -
She felt a deep sense of fellow feeling for those affected by the recent disaster.
Synonyms
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Feeling of understanding and sharing another person's sadness
154
3.2
Ability to understand and share another person's feelings and experiences
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3.4
A situation where two or more people share the same feelings and ideas
Antonyms
How Sympathetic
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2.7
154
3.2
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4.5
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156
1.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sense of sympathy for others' is directly compositional from 'fellow' (a person of the same group/another person) + 'feeling' (an emotional response): i.e. a feeling directed toward fellow people. This concept is cross-linguistically common and, despite being somewhat formal or literary, a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reasonably infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
The phrase fellow feeling comes from the simple image of a fellow as a friend who shares a feeling with you. That's why it means 'sympathy' and 'understanding' for someone else's pain.