fellow feeling
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfellow feelingˌfellow ˈfeeling noun [uncountable] literary SYMPATHIZEa feeling of sympathy and friendship towards someone because they are like you As an only child myself, I had a fellow feeling for Laura.Examples from the Corpusfellow feeling• He had a shy manner which evoked a fellow feeling in me.• She also left the book undisturbed but felt, as soon as she saw the title, a further fellow feeling with S. Kettering.