compassionateness
English
Etymology
compassionate + -ness
Noun
compassionateness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being compassionate.
- Synonym: compassion
- 1661, Edward Burrough, A Just and Righteous Plea Presented unto the King of England, and His Council, London: Robert Wilson,
- […] not as in any kind of harshness in my spirit towards you do I write, but in love and compassionateness to you and these Kingdoms.
- 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 1, Chapter 7, p. 133,
- […] but Gwendolen, instead of any such symptoms as pallor and silence, had only deepened the compassionateness of her brow and eyes,