fellow feeling

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

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Examples from the Web for fellow-feeling

Every crowned head in Europe had written with that fellow-feeling which on such occasions royalty is bound to express.
King John of Jingalo|Laurence Housman
My heart was always tender towards the sex, and I generally expected a fellow-feeling.
The Funny Side of Physic|A. D. Crabtre
For my part, Archie has given me a fellow-feeling for the birds of the air.
Cavalry of the Clouds|Alan Bott
Besides, he made a jail-bird of himself afterwards, so you ought to have a fellow-feeling—a feathered feeling, so to speak.
Children of the Bush|Henry Lawson

The Deity, whilst possessing the necessary power, is yet untouched by the sympathy resultant from fellow-feeling.
Browning and Dogma|Ethel M. Naish

British Dictionary definitions for fellow-feeling

fellow feeling

noun

mutual sympathy or friendship

an opinion held in common

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Word Origin and History for fellow-feeling

fellow-feeling

1610s, an attempt to translate Latin compassio and Greek sympatheia. It yielded a back-formed verb, fellow-feel in 17c.

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