No Matter How You Say It: Compassion
Word Origin
From Latin com “with, together”+ pati “to suffer”. Can you see how Compassion is suffering with someone? Part of compassion is empathy, but the true value of Compassion comes when this feeling spurs you to action.
(etymology from https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=compassion)
Sign Language
Check out the following links from www.handspeak.com for the American Sign Language interpretation of the words:
Compassion – can you see Compassion coming from your heart?
Indifferent – go to the second option – can you see how uncaring indifference is?
Idioms
- A bleeding heart
- A heart full of love
- Be filled with compassion
- Be moved by someone’s plight
- Being a Good Samaritan
- Close your eyes to someone’s suffering
- Compassion fatigue
- Could not bring yourself to do something
- Don’t have the heart to do something
- Extend compassion
- Feel someone’s pain
- Have a cold heart
- Have a heart of gold
- Have a soft spot for someone
- Melt someone’s heart
- Open your heart
- Put yourself in someone’s shoes
- Reach out with compassion
- Show compassion
- Turn a blind eye to someone’s plight
- Understand where someone is coming from
- Walk a mile in someone’s shoes
Translations
Spanish: compassion
French: la compassion
Irish: comhbhá
Italian: compassione
German: Mitgefühl
In Other Languages
Spanish – compasión
French – compassion
German – Mitgefühl
Italian – compassione
Swedish – medkänsla
Basque – errukia
Portugese – compaixão
