Hyphenation of compassion

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word compassion? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

com-pas-sion

Definitions of compassion:

1.	A deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering
2.	The humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it

Synonyms of compassion:

noun	compassionateness, sympathy, fellow feeling
noun	pity, mercifulness, mercy

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.