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noun

sympathetic feeling; sympathy: to have fellow feeling for the unfortunate.

a sense of joint interest: to act out of fellow feeling to support one's country.

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Origin of fellow feeling

First recorded in 1605–15

Words nearby fellow feeling

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How to use fellow feeling in a sentence

You can’t do anything in public health without fellow feeling.
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Something like fluoride, which is too small for normal filters, yanks away that feeling of agency.
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But there is an underlying feeling that the worst is yet to come.
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On Dec. 22, 1799, Sands told her cousins that she would be leaving to elope with a fellow boarder named Levi Weeks that night.
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We have to share those feelings of concern that the people are feeling.
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He has even joked about how his fellow Republicans attack him.
Why This Liberal Hearts Huckabee|Sally Kohn|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It is full of poetic feeling, and the flesh tints are unusually natural.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
Alessandro turned a grateful look on Ramona as he translated this speech, so in unison with Indian modes of thought and feeling.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
Selections for practice should be chosen which contain much variety of thought and feeling and are smooth in movement.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
It was with a feeling of relief on both sides that the arrival of Mr. Haggard, of the Home Office, was announced.
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The little boy of two, often quoted here, showed a punctilious feeling for order in the placing of things.
Children's Ways|James Sully

British Dictionary definitions for fellow feeling

fellow feeling

noun

mutual sympathy or friendship

an opinion held in common

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fellow feeling

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