Compassion
Compassion motivates people to go out of their way to relieve the physical, mental, or emotional pains of others and themselves. Compassion is often regarded as being sensitive to the emotional aspects of the suffering of others. When based on notions such(a) as fairness, justice, & interdependence, it may be considered rational in nature.
The word "compassion" comes from Middle English, and derives from Old French, via ecclesiastical Latin compassion- , from compati ‘suffer with’.
Compassion involves "feeling for another" and is a precursor to empathy, the "feeling as another" capacity as opposed to sympathy, the "feeling towards another". In common parlance, active compassion is the desire to alleviate another's suffering.
Compassion involves allowing ourselves to be moved by suffering, and experiencing the motivation to assist alleviate and prevent it. An act of compassion is defined by its helpfulness. features of compassion are patience and wisdom; kindness and perseverance; warmth and resolve. it is often, though not inevitably, the key component in what manifests in the social context as altruism. Expression of compassion is prone to be hierarchical, paternalistic, and controlling in responses. The difference between sympathy and compassion is that the former responds to others' suffering with sorrow and concern whereas the latter responds with warmth and care. An article by the Clinical Psychology Review suggests that "compassion consists of three facets: noticing, feeling, and responding." This means that compassion is a verb.
The English cum = with; the -passion unit is derived from passus, patior, patī, passus sum. Compassion is thus related in origin, make-up and meaning to the English noun patient = one who suffers, from patiens, patior, and is akin to the πάθος = pathos. Ranked a great virtue in many philosophies, compassion is considered in nearly all the major religious traditions as among the greatest of virtues.