compassion
B1CEFR level
15/100Rarity: common
NeutralRegister
General noun
Sympathetic concern for the suffering of others, coupled with a wish to help.
He treated even the most difficult patients with unfailing compassion.
Medicine noun
A sympathetic concern for another's suffering together with a wish to relieve it.
Delivering difficult news with compassion matters as much as the accuracy of the information.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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