{
    "term": "compassion",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a strong feeling of sympathy for people or animals who are suffering and a desire to help them",
            "sensetop": "compassion (for somebody)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **feel/show compassion**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was known as a hard woman with no compassion, no emotion."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In an overworked doctor, feelings of compassion are soon lost."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was filled with overwhelming love and compassion for his wife."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I felt no compassion towards her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I survived. Someone or something had had compassion on me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In cities where many people beg, citizens quickly develop compassion fatigue."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We were treated with great compassion."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["deep", "great", "genuine"],
                "verb + compassion": ["be filled with", "feel", "have"],
                "compassion + noun": ["fatigue"],
                "preposition": [
                    "compassion  for",
                    "compassion  towards/​toward",
                    "with compassion"
                ],
                "phrases": ["love and compassion"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəmˈpæʃn/",
                "audio": "co/compassion/compassion__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəmˈpæʃn/",
                "audio": "co/compassion/compassion__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: via Old French from ecclesiastical Latin compassio(n-), from compati ‘suffer with’."
}