fellow feeling

1. 1.

   sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)

   Synonymssympathy

   Broaderfeeling

   Narrowerconcernkindheartednesscompassioncommiserationcompatibilityempathy

Questions about fellow feeling

What does fellow feeling mean?

fellow feeling means "sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)".

What is another word for fellow feeling?

Close synonyms include sympathy. 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 fellow feeling a common word?

fellow feeling 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.