pampathy

See also: Pampathy

English

Alternative forms

• panpathy

Etymology

Formed as pam- (“all”) +‎ -pathy (“feeling”) after sympathy, empathy, etc.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpampəθi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpæmpəθɪ/

Noun

pampathy (uncountable)

1. (philosophy of religion, rare) The supposed faculty that causes its possessors to yearn to commune with the “All” of existence.
   • 1918, Édouard Le Roy, translated by Lydia Gillingham Robinson, What Is a Dogma?, page 5:

     It is a “pampathy” or all-feeling which produces in every individual a deep-felt longing to be at one with the whole universe of which each is a part.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pampathy.

Translations

all-feeling causing yearning for universal community