Definitions
Examples
“Most of all, it involves a very wonderful word, "compersion," which poly writers describe as the opposite of jealousy.”
“Polys call this process "compersion" — or learning to find personal fulfillment in the emotional and sexual satisfaction of your partner, even if you're not the one doing the satisfying.”
“I try to warn people about this (I tell them I am polyamorous, and lazy, explain about compersion, and warn them of my selfishness and insensitivity and intolerance of neediness and expectation) but I still end up hurting people, which does make me unhappy.”
“Polyamory groups encourage the multilateral relationships where there is a replacement of jealousy with compersion, clear hierarchy of relationships or where or empathizing with a lover's joy with expectations are otherwise fixed.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘compersion’.
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-sion
division, passion, decompression, compression, suppression, depression, digression, degression, diversion, aggression, compassion, vision and 1 more...
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May 2010 (Wedding Month!!)
Just the words I meet this month, starting with cecum.
cecum, compersion, antilogy, fantods, dord, flam, ipsedixitism, quartine, glycation, neoteny, desiccation, hypovolemia and 17 more...
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lindaness's list
Ausgezeignet
precision, quite, irregardless, drownded, diaspora, compersion, de rigueur, bodhisattva, dénouement
ambyellen this is such a useful word. May 3, 2010
reesetee The S-word. *shudder* Oct 17, 2007
john Oh man. You said that word :-| Oct 17, 2007
kad Sort of the good-spirited opposite of schadenfreude. Oct 17, 2007
cathari Definition
compersion. n. To be happy that someone else is happy. The opposite of jealousy; delight in another's good fortune.
He felt compersion when his daughter won the lead in the school play.
She had moved on, and now felt compersion that her ex-husband was able to remarry.
Oct 17, 2007