commiseration

1. 1.

   a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

   “the blind are too often objects of pity”

   Synonymspityruthpathos

   Broadersympathy
2. 2.

   an expression of sympathy with another's grief

   “they sent their condolences”

   Synonymscondolence

   Broaderacknowledgment

Other forms of commiseration

plural

commiserations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about commiseration

What does commiseration mean?

commiseration means "a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in commiseration?

commiseration has 6 syllables: com-mi-se-ra-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for commiseration?

Close synonyms include pity, ruth, pathos, condolence. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is commiseration a common word?

commiseration is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.