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Definition of Fellow feeling

1. Noun. Sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish).

Definition of Fellow feeling

1. Noun. A sense of sympathy for, consideration of, or shared interests with one or more other human beings. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fellow Feeling

Literary usage of Fellow feeling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt (1902)
"Neither our national nor our local civic life can be what it should be unless it is marked by the fellow-feeling, the mutual kindness, the mutual respect, ..."

2. Social Adaptation: A Study in the Development of the Doctrine of Adaptation by Lucius Moody Bristol (1915)
"In Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, published in 1759, we have a compromise between the two, both self-interest and sympathy or " fellow-feeling ..."

3. Structure & Growth of the Mind by Sir William Mitchell (1907)
"LECTURE VII FELLOW-FEELING AND INDIVIDUATION vii. i.§ I. THE word fellow-feeling is sometimes used without reference to the means by which we come to have ..."

4. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages: Classified Subjectively and by Robert Christy (1887)
"1. It is with feelings as with waters : The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. Raleigh. Fellow-feeling. 1. A fellow-feeling makes us wondrous kind. ..."

5. Manual of Political Ethics: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Colleges and by Francis Lieber, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1876)
"Sympathy or Fellow-feeling.—The Human Intellect.—Thinking, Reflection.—Difference of Mental Action in Animals and Man.—Experience of Animals. ..."

6. An Artillery Officer in the Mexican War, 1846-7: Letters of Robert Anderson by Robert Anderson, Eba Anderson Lawton (1911)
"Huger and some others are waiting to avail themselves of the candle-light which I am using, courtesy and fellow-feeling prompt me to close at as short a ..."

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