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FELLOW-FEELING

Definitions: FELLOW-FEELING

FELLOW-FEELING

Noun

1. Joint interest.

2. Sympathy; a like feeling.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FELLOW-FEELING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references)

 

Synonyms within Context: FELLOW-FEELING

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Benevolence

Good nature, good feeling, good wishes; kindness, kindliness; Adjective: loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-feeling, sympathy: goodness of heart, warmth of heart; bonhomie; kind-heartedness; amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness; love; friendship.

Friendship

Cordiality, fraternization, entente cordiale, good understanding, rapprochement, sympathy, fellow-feeling, response, welcomeness.

Love

Affection, sympathy, fellow-feeling; tenderness; Adjective: heart, brotherly love; benevolence; attachment.

Pity

Noun: pity, compassion, commiseration; bowels, of compassion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency; (lenity); charity, ruth, long-suffering.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage Frequency: FELLOW-FEELING

"FELLOW-FEELING" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FELLOW-FEELING" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1590,616

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: FELLOW-FEELING

Language Translations for "FELLOW-FEELING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

yhteistunne (feeling of solidarity). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ellow-feelingfay

   

Vietnamese 

  

sá»± thông cảm (sympathy, understanding), sá»± hiểu nhau sá»± Ä‘á»"ng quan Ä‘iểm. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "FELLOW-FEELING"

Words rhyming with "FELLOW-FEELING" (pronounced 'Fel"low-feel"ing'): Abearing, Aboding, Agoing, Awanting, Away-going, Awning, Aworking, Baaing, Ballooning, Birding, Birthing, Bocking, Bolling, Bridgeing, Cannonering, Carking, Colling, Crefting, Deglazing, Derdoing, Dilluing, Dooring, Drearing, During, Easting, Elamping, Electro-engraving, Electro-etching, Electro-gilding, Emprising, Enchafing, Enerlasting, Eploring, Everduring, Everlasting, Everliving, Fairing, Falding, firing, Flating, Fleaking, Fleming, flying, Foreholding, Gapesing, Ginging, Gloaming, grasping, Grinting, grooving. (additional references)

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Anagrams: FELLOW-FEELING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-f-f-g-i-l-l-l-n-o-w"

-4 letters: fellowing.

-5 letters: lifelong.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FELLOW-FEELING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 45 4C 4C 4F 57 2D 46 45 45 4C 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01000101 01001100 01001100 01001111 01010111 00101101 01000110 01000101 01000101 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#69 &#76 &#76 &#79 &#87 &#45 &#70 &#69 &#69 &#76 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0045 004C 004C 004F 0057 002D 0046 0045 0045 004C 0049 004E 0047

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4039464649571540393946434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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