fellow feelingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌfel.əʊ ˈfiː.lɪŋ/us/ˌfel.oʊ ˈfiː.lɪŋ/an understanding or sympathy that you feel for another person because you have a shared experience:
There was a fellow feeling between everyone who had lived through the war.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Sympathy & compassion
- a good listener idiom
- a shoulder to cry on idiom
- aw
- bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
- better luck next time idiom
- cloud
- feel for sb
- go out to sb
- hard luck! idiom
- hard/tough cheese! idiom
- heartrending
- poor
- relate
- relate to sb
- sad
- sensitive
- shoulder
- solace
- sympathy vote
- understanding
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