(n.) Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration.
(v. t.) To pity.
Example Sentences:
(1) I woke up yesterday morning with an inbox, in full capacity of love and compassion,” she wrote.
(2) These boys showed a lack of compassion to our daughter and to their community as a whole."
(3) Speaking at a film festival in Dubai he said: "My compass has not stopped spinning," referring to the many policy switches made by the party he previously supported.
(4) The letter is particularly striking given that some of signatories are on the party's centre right, such as Progress and Policy Network, and others on the left, such as key figures at Compass and Class.
(5) Male eastern red-spotted newts (Notophthalmus viridescens) under controlled laboratory conditions exhibit unimodal magnetic compass orientation either in a trained compass direction or in the direction of their home pond.
(6) The grand mufti of Australia, Ibrahim Abu Mohammad, said Islam did not need a reformation “since the normative principles and practices of the religion allow Muslims to harmoniously coexist within pluralist societies that are based on the universal values of compassion and justice”.
(7) What it says is that their moral code is lacking any kind of compass we can endorse,” said Sharan Burrow, the Ituc general secretary.
(8) There has been a great deal of media coverage about the need for staff to demonstrate compassion.
(9) It seems that Mrs May’s vicarage upbringing has left her more than a little lacking in Christian compassion.
(10) When Malcolm Turnbull was asked about Asha specifically he said he wouldn’t comment on individual cases but that we’ll be treating all people with compassion.
(11) What an inspiration: teaching us all to embrace life, look after each other, and have love and compassion no matter what May 14, 2014 Comedian Jason Manford, who championed Stephen's cause and helped him surpass his fundraising goal, released a statement on Wednesday afternoon: Guardian readers have also added their tributes in the comments of the article about his death, with one reflecting on the way Stephen mastered social media in order to raise money for charity and document his story.
(12) I’m sure if my father was around, if he had the opportunity to meet her he would be reminding her that compassion was important, that ethics in public life was important, and that compromise was important.
(13) Staff do not always honour the pledge on compassion in the NHS Constitution to "respond with humanity and kindness to each person's pain, distress, anxiety or need", he added.
(14) More than that, the proposition acts as a compass for Labour policy proposals ie: "How does a particular policy contribute towards work, public income and a caring society?"
(15) In a letter to the prime minister he urged Cameron to show “compassion and human kindness” .
(16) It is essential, then, in order to lessen the tendency toward neurosis, that such women be treated with compassion, competence, patience and psychiatric care, and that they be made fully aware of surgical procedures and its consequences, as well as the advantages of eugenics.
(17) It's music that defines compassion, lament, and loss, to which you can only surrender in moist-eyed wonder.
(18) But there is a difference between knowledge of other peoples and other times that is the result of understanding, compassion, careful study and analysis for their own sakes, and on the other hand knowledge that is part of an overall campaign of self-affirmation.
(19) For our government at the highest levels to suggest that when it comes to asylum seekers at sea there is no moral compass and no moral limit is not only astonishing and appalling but completely unacceptable,” he said.
(20) The norms, practices and capabilities of teams contribute to the formation of effective working relationships and determine whether there is a micro-climate that allows compassion to thrive.
Empathy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, the number of distressful childhood experiences reported was generally unrelated to empathy scores.
(2) Many have been driven to a suicidal despair that only those devoid of human empathy can fail to understand.
(3) This paper examines empathy as a practice component that is particularly significant in its relationship to self-determination in the discharge process in acute hospital settings.
(4) This finding does not support the contention that a history of drinking and rehabilitation enhances the perception of counselor empathy among alcoholics.
(5) Responses indicated that physicians are more concerned with management than diagnosis and revealed considerable evidence of empathy and concern.
(6) Which is a monstrous statistic, especially when you start thinking about it as a statistic that measures not just literacy but also as a measure of imagination and empathy, because a book is a little empathy machine.
(7) A therapist's expertness, trustworthiness, empathy, and attractiveness were evaluated by 300 subjects after viewing a 5-min.
(8) The parts of the brain connected to learning and empathy don’t develop properly.
(9) It’s about incentivising a new balance between risk management and relational support by enabling social workers to do what they do at their best: to see and build on people’s strengths, head off problems before they become crises, show empathy, and offer creative and flexible support, focused on the long term.
(10) Although the simple A-B interaction effect was not found, significant second-order interactions were found for both accurate empathy and positive reactions which indicated that the predicted interaction effect tends to be upheld for inexperienced therapists but attenuated or reversed for experienced therapists.
(11) Empathy is a general or superordinate term for many more specific aspects of the sensitive interpersonal interactions in the intimacy of relationships like the psychoanalytic one.
(12) Implications for referral include ensuring that the interview with the patient includes a communication, empathy, and mutual influence.
(13) It always, for me, comes down to empathy and how much you are able to understand how other people with less privileged backgrounds get on,” she says.
(14) The students were administered the Hogan Empathy Scale, and scores were correlated with peer and faculty empathy ratings.
(15) They emphasize that mental health professionals can help families of schizophrenics by providing practical, realistic advice on how to deal with the illness, by offering empathy and support rather than placing blame, and by working to ensure that there are adequate treatment and rehabilitation services available.
(16) The recognition of two distinct types--basic empathy, a human developmental trait, and trained empathy, a clinical skill state--is set forth as a possible solution to methodological problems.
(17) Republicans will also be minimizing the chance of someone making an unfortunate, Todd Akin-like statement that might display a lack of empathy with Newtown's victims.
(18) Click here to view Into the Woods trailer The composer said he had some empathy with Disney's position, which has also led to a key song from the original show, Any Moment, being cut.
(19) Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together … If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate – as it should – let’s make sure it’s worthy of those we have lost.
(20) These include good information and communication from professionals, involvement in decisions yet respect for preferences, emotional support and empathy, and continuity and co-ordination of care.