: a feeling of community of interest or of mutual understanding
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There's a sense of sympathy and fellow feeling among members of the group.
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Iran, by far the world’s largest Shiite-majority country, encouraged these groups—mostly Shiite minorities—by scouting them, nurturing the most promising, and building trust and fellow feeling.—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025 Scientific cooperation is an essential form of diplomacy, generating open-mindedness, patience, and fellow feeling.—L. Rafael Reif, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2023 What has been much more difficult to discern is the squad’s morale, its fellow feeling, its unity.—Rory Smith, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023 The lights go out again in a later scene, in which any fellow feeling for Jud is extinguished.—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2022 Conversion to Islam broke even the nominal fellow feeling that should have been engendered by a mutual Christian identity across white and black communities.—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2013
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