commiseration en · NOUN
Etymology
From Middle French commisération.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The act of commiserating; sorrow for the hardships or afflictions of another; pity; compassion.
The death of anti-feminist activist Phyllis Schlafly on Monday brought commiserations from the GOP ticket. Donald Trump tweeted that she was “truly great.” Mike Pence called her “the First Lady of the Conservative Movement.” Pence wasn’t exaggerating.
2016 September 6, Timothy Stanley, “How Phyllis Schlafly gave us Sarah Palin”, in CNN:The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:But her assertion soon proved its truth. That very evening I met both the Duc de Joyeuse and Mademoiselle Guerchy;—a slight embarrassment on his part, a little air of triumphant impertinence on hers, and an affected but insolent commiseration from Mademoiselle de Guise, told the whole.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 197:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| commiserations | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
mercy · compassion · ruth · fellow feeling · rue · tenderheartedness · fellow feeling · sympathy · mercy · bowels · commiseration · pity · empathy · remorse · loving-kindness
Translations (21)
nl medelijden (act of commiserating) · pl żal (act of commiserating) · de Mitgefühl (act of commiserating) · cmn 同情 (act of commiserating) · de Mitleid (act of commiserating) · sv medlidande (act of commiserating) · nl medeleven (act of commiserating) · es conmiseración (act of commiserating) · ro compasiune (act of commiserating) · ro comizerație (act of commiserating) · fr commisération (act of commiserating) · ca commiseració (act of commiserating) · gl conmiseración (act of commiserating) · nb medlitenhet (act of commiserating) · bg съчувствие (act of commiserating) · pt comiseração (act of commiserating) · ro compătimire (act of commiserating) · nb medynk (act of commiserating) · pl litość (act of commiserating) · pl współczucie (act of commiserating) · cmn 怜悯 (act of commiserating)