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Pity

Pity is a sympathetic sorrow evoked by the suffering of others. The word is comparable to compassion, condolence, or empathy. It derives from the Latin pietas (etymon also of piety). Self-pity is pity directed towards oneself.

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Pity

Nodes59
Edges58
Triples117
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.033898
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related to Further reading · 38
Pity → Acknowledging, An Enquiry, Bristol Classical Press, Business Media, Compassion, David, Enquires, Fin-de-siècle French Culture, Gonzalo, Greenwood Publishing Group, Human Understanding, Hume, In Selby-Bigge, ISBN, Konstan, Lauren, Leuven, London, Morals, New York
related to Literary examples · 24
Pity → Bilbo, Blake, Enitharmon, For, Gollum, However, If, In The Book, It, Juvenal, Los, My, Mystic, Poor, Rings, Sisson, The Human Abstract, The Lord, The Poetry, Tolkien
related to Medieval conceptions · 14
Pity → Canterbury Tales, Early Middle English, English, Erasmus, Erasmus' Enchiridion, Geoffrey Chaucer, Good Women, In, Latin, Legend, Middle English, Modern English, The, The Mediaeval
related to Religious views · 14
Pity → Bodhisattvas, God, In, In Mahayana Buddhism, Jewish, Judeo-Christian, Like, Lord, Lotus Sutra, Nirvana, Psalms, Septuagint, The Hebrew, West
related to Philosophical assessments · 12
Pity → Aristotle, David Hume, Developing, Greek, He, Human Nature, Hume, Let, Rhetoric, Treatise, When, While
see also · 8
Pity → Ability, Animism, Attribution, Class, Emotions, Feeling, Movement, Person's
related to External links · 3
Pity → The, Wiktionary, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
is a · 2
Pity → natural sentiment, sympathetic sorrow evoked by the suffering of others
related to Psychological opinions · 2
Pity → Psychoanalysis, Psychologists

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compassion word also others latin suffering human english one pite century empathy piety least feel concerning us oneself aristotle sympathy

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Pityis asympathetic sorrow evoked by the suffering of others0.90text
Pityis anatural sentiment0.90text
Pityrelated to External linksWiktionary-logo-en-v20.60section
Pityrelated to External linksThe0.60section
Pityrelated to External linksWiktionary0.60section
Pityrelated to Further readingHume0.60section
Pityrelated to Further readingDavid0.60section
Pityrelated to Further readingAn Enquiry0.60section
Pityrelated to Further readingPrinciples0.60section
Pityrelated to Further readingMorals0.60section
Pityrelated to Further readingIn Selby-Bigge0.60section
Pityrelated to Further readingNidditch0.60section

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