Entry Word: commiseration

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 sorrow or the capacity to feel sorrow for anotherʼs suffering or misfortune <letters of commiseration sent to the hospitalized student> — see sympathy 1
2 the capacity for feeling for anotherʼs unhappiness or misfortune <a heartless businessman with no commiseration for the less fortunate> — see heart 1