Loving vs Compassionate - What's the difference?
loving | compassionate |
The action of the verb to love .
Expressing a large amount of love to other people; affectionate.
Having, feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic.
* South
Of a leave, given to someone because of a domestic emergency.
(obsolete) Inviting pity; pitiable.
(archaic) To feel compassion for; to pity, feel sorry for.
* {{quote-book, year=1903, author=William Godwin, title=Caleb Williams, chapter=, edition=
, passage=And yet I could not help bitterly compassionating the honest fellow, brought to the gallows, as he was, strictly speaking, by the machinations of that devil incarnate, Mr. Tyrrel. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1895, author=J. Sheridan Le Fanu, title=The Evil Guest, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The good Mrs. Mervyn accompanied these words with looks so sly, and emphasis so significant, that Rhoda was fain to look down, to hide her blushes; and compassionating the confusion she herself had caused, the kind old lady led her to the chamber which was henceforward, so long as she consented to remain, to be her own apartment. }}
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 50:
As adjectives the difference between loving and compassionate
is that loving is expressing a large amount of love to other people; affectionate while compassionate is having, feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic.As verbs the difference between loving and compassionate
is that loving is present participle of lang=en while compassionate is to feel compassion for; to pity, feel sorry for.As a noun loving
is the action of the verb to love.As a proper noun Loving
is {{surname}.loving
English
Noun
(en-noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- his loving wife
Synonyms
* adoring * affectionate * See alsoVerb
(head)compassionate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate .
- compassionate leave
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* ruthfulVerb
(compassionat)citation
citation
- The justice which Mr Allworthy had executed on Partridge at first met with universal approbation; but no sooner had he felt its consequences, than his neighbours began to relent, and to compassionate his case [...].