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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.
fellow feeling
noun
- mutual sympathy or friendship
- an opinion held in common
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fellow feeling1
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Example Sentences
Lady Margaret Cooper, having a fellow-feeling for an invalid, sat near the sick boy.
Love in the family found its counterpart in fellow-feeling in the tribe, in patriotism in the nation.
To write with authority about another man, we must have fellow-feeling and some common ground of experience with our subject.
Her companions' eyes were opened, for the instant a fellow-feeling smote them.
He was a treacherous man, and so could neither reasonably demand fidelity, nor have fellow feeling for honest misfortune.
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