fellow feeling

noun

Updated on: 25 Apr 2018

Definition of fellow feeling

: a feeling of community of interest or of mutual understanding

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Examples of fellow feeling in a Sentence

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

Recent Examples of fellow feeling from 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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