[f. COM- + PASSIVITY; cf. prec.] A condition of suffering, or of being affected, together with another.
1667. H. More, Div. Dial., i. § 30 (1713), 67. Not a mere Compassivity, but rather a Coactivity of the Spirit in which it does reside.
a. 1860. J. Gardner, Faiths of World, I. 570/2. Compassivity, a term used in Romanist writers to express the feelings of a saint on beholding in a vision the sufferings of Christ whereby his soul is transpierced with the sword of a compassive pain.
