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fellow-feeling

Noun

Meaning

Sympathy; a like feeling.

Joint interest.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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fellow feeling

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I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling. Robert Burton

Their cause I plead,-plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind. David Garrick

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men. George Eliot

As far as my experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in this age, there appears to be a fellow-feeling among them, which had not heretofore been developed. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Compassionate fellow-feeling ... can soon become self-indulgent and lead to spiritual pride. It imparts an inner glow, like a shot of whiskey on a cold day, but like whisky it can prevent the clear-headedness which we need at least as much as we need warmth of heart. Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)

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