Word Structure

WordHub has a local lexical record for “Compassionateness” with pronunciation and root analysis.

• com-

  with, together; also used as an intensive

  Forms: com, col, con, cor, co

• pass

  to suffer; to feel deeply, to pity

  Forms: pass, pat

• -ion

  attached to verbs, making nouns of state, condition, or action

  Forms: ion

• -ate

  forms adjectives and nouns, denoting a state, office, function, or a quality, characteristic; also forms verbs from nouns and adjectives, to do, to make, to cause -ati: a group or class of people

  Forms: ate

• -ness

  forming an abstract noun that denoting action, quality, or state

  Forms: ness, esse, ice