compersion
Vicarious joy associated with seeing one's partner have a joyful romantic or sexual…Vicarious joy associated with seeing one's partner have a joyful romantic or sexual relationship with another person.
Meaning
2 senses(neologism, uncountable)Vicarious joy associated with seeing one's partner have a joyful romantic or sexual relationship with another person.
Mitfreude
(neologism, uncountable)The feeling of joy one has experiencing another's joy, such as in witnessing a toddler's joy and feeling joy in response.
Translations
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Origin
Coined in the early 1990s by a group of members of the Kerista Commune, a polyamorous grouCoined in the early 1990s by a group of members of the Kerista Commune, a polyamorous group based in San Francisco, California, U.S.A., in existence between 1956 and 1991, apparently randomly using an alphabet board (similar to a Ouija board), with -ion (suffix forming nouns).
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Word family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable