fellow feeling

noun

1. sympathetic feeling; sympathy:

   to have fellow feeling for the unfortunate.

2. a sense of joint interest:

   to act out of fellow feeling to support one's country.

fellow feeling

noun

1. mutual sympathy or friendship
2. an opinion held in common

Word History and Origins

Origin of fellow feeling¹

First recorded in 1605–15

Example Sentences

You can’t do anything in public health without fellow feeling.

From Time

Lady Margaret Cooper, having a fellow-feeling for an invalid, sat near the sick boy.

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Love in the family found its counterpart in fellow-feeling in the tribe, in patriotism in the nation.

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To write with authority about another man, we must have fellow-feeling and some common ground of experience with our subject.

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Her companions' eyes were opened, for the instant a fellow-feeling smote them.

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He was a treacherous man, and so could neither reasonably demand fidelity, nor have fellow feeling for honest misfortune.

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