fellow feeling

Definition of fellow feeling

: a feeling of community of interest or of mutual understanding

Examples of fellow feeling in a Sentence

There's a sense of sympathy and fellow feeling among members of the group.

Recent Examples on the Web At the present moment, many Americans feel as Boston’s didacts once did: desperate to see their country regain a sense of common perspective and fellow feeling that once existed, if only in myth. — Justin T. Clark, BostonGlobe.com, "Building Boston to shape morality," 14 Apr. 2018 This shared outrage reinforces the fellow feeling; a lack of appropriate outrage marks you out as not belonging. — The Economist, "Less Euromaidan, more GamergateOnce considered a boon to democracy, social media have started to look like its nemesis," 4 Nov. 2017 This shared outrage reinforces the fellow feeling — The Economist, "Less Euromaidan, more GamergateOnce considered a boon to democracy, social media have started to look like its nemesis," 4 Nov. 2017 What might all this fellow feeling mean for the president’s war on Sessions? — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, "Senate Republicans love their former colleague Jeff Sessions. If Trump fires the attorney general, will they finally grow spines?," 27 July 2017

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“Fellow feeling.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fellow%20feeling. Accessed 18 January 2020.

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