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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-801/
- Published: 2026-10-27T17:15:10.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-27T17:15:09.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

compassion (noun) -

: sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it

Source : [Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compassion?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Compassion and empathy both refer to a caring response to someone else’s distress. While empathy refers to an active sharing in the emotional experience of the other person, compassion adds to that emotional experience a desire to alleviate the person’s distress. Compassion is a much older word; it’s been part of the language since the 14th century, and comes ultimately from Latin com- and pati, meaning “to bear, suffer.” Empathy is a 20th century coinage modeled on sympathy as a translation of the German Einfühlung (“feeling-in” or “feeling into”). It was first applied in contexts of philosophy, aesthetics, and psychology and continues to have technical use in those fields.

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