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Impassion vs Compassion - What's the difference?

impassion | compassion |

As verbs the difference between impassion and compassion

is that impassion is make passionate, instill passion in while compassion is (obsolete) to pity.

As a noun compassion is

deep awareness of the suffering of another, coupled with the wish to relieve it.

impassion

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • make passionate, instill passion in
  • *{{quote-book, year=1912, author=Arnold Bennett, title=Your United States, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Baseball remains a formidable item, yet scarcely capable of balancing the scale against the sports--football, cricket, racing, pelota, bull-fighting--which, in Europe, impassion the common people, and draw most of their champions from the common people. }}

    compassion

    English

    Noun

  • Deep awareness of the suffering of another, coupled with the wish to relieve it
  • * 1849 , Robert Leighton (Archbishop of Glasgow), A practical commentary upon the first Epistle of St. Peter (page 47)
    • Oh! the unspeakable privilege to have Him for our Father, who is the Father of mercies and compassions , and those not barren, fruitless pityings, for He is withal the God of all consolations.

    Synonyms

    * empathy, pity, ruth, tenderheartedness, sorrow * kindness, heart, mercy

    Derived terms

    * compassionate * compassion fatigue

    Related terms

    * compatible

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To pity.
  • * 1607 , , IV. i. 124:
    • O heavens, can you hear a good man groan / And not relent, or not compassion him?

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