pityˈpɪt i
pity (v)
- present
- pities
- past
- pitied
- past participle
- pitied
- present participle
- pitying
pity (v)
- present
- pities
- past
- pitied
- past participle
- pitied
- present participle
- pitying
pity
English Definitions:
commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos (noun)
a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
"the blind are too often objects of pity"
pity, shame (noun)
an unfortunate development
"it's a pity he couldn't do it"
compassion, pity (verb)
the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it
feel for, pity, compassionate, condole with, sympathize with (verb)
share the suffering of
pity (Noun)
A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
pity (Noun)
(countable but not used in the plural) Something regrettable.
pity (Verb)
To feel pity for (someone or something).
pity (Interjection)
Short form of what a pity.
Pity
Pity means feeling for others, particularly feelings of sadness or sorrow, and is used in a comparable sense to the more modern words "sympathy" and "empathy". Through insincere usage, it can also have a more unsympathetic connotation of feelings of superiority or condescension. The word "pity" comes from the Latin word "Pietas". The word is often used in the translations from Ancient Greek into English of Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric. Aristotle argued that before a person can feel pity for another human, the person must first have experienced suffering of a similar type, and the person must also be somewhat distanced or removed from the sufferer. In Aristotle's Rhetoric he defines pity as follows: "Let pity, then, be a kind of pain in the case of an apparent destructive or painful harm of one not deserving to encounter it, which one might expect oneself, or one of one's own, to suffer, and this when it seems near". Aristotle also pointed out that "people pity their acquaintances, provided that they are not exceedingly close in kinship; for concerning these they are disposed as they are concerning themselves...For what is terrible is different from what is pitiable, and is expulsive of pity". Thus, from Aristotle's perspective, in order to feel pity, a person must believe that the person who is suffering does not deserve their fate. Developing a traditional Greek view in his work on poetry, Aristotle also defines tragedy as a kind of imitative poetry that provokes pity and fear.
Pity
Pity is a sympathetic sorrow evoked by the suffering of others, and is used in a comparable sense to compassion, condolence or empathy – the word deriving from the Latin pietas (etymon also of piety). Self-pity is pity directed towards oneself. Two different kinds of pity can be distinguished, "benevolent pity" and "contemptuous pity" (see Kimball), where, through insincere, pejorative usage, pity is used to connote feelings of superiority, condescension, or contempt.
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