fellow feeling
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.61 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A sense of sympathy for, consideration of, or shared interests with one or more other human beings.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "But here my heart is wrung with pity and fellow feeling, when I reflect what miseries must have been their lot, and how bitterly so refined a people must have smarted, to have forced them upon the use of it."
- "[I]s the character and property of the man, who labours for our intellectual pleasures, less entitled to a share of our fellow feeling, than that of the wine-merchant or milliner?"
- "“Besides, I was always interfering in the details. Being myself one of the laziest of mortals, I had altogether too much fellow-feeling for the lazy; […]"
- ""[H]ow kindly we reciprocate each other's little delicacies, don't we? What better proof, now, that we are kind, considerate fellows, with responsive fellow-feelings—eh, barber?""
- "“Well, I couldn’t do my duty as a clergyman, any more than you could do yours as a governess. You ought to have a little fellow-feeling there, Mary.”"
- "A magic thread of fellow-feeling united his own life with theirs."