ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Moreover, since pity involves paying attention to the suffering, rather than the success, of others, it may ultimately lead to some improvement. In pity, we overcome our natural tendency to look away from people who suffer. This is no doubt socially useful and morally commendable.

Detailed explanation-2: -If you feel pity for someone, you feel very sorry for them. He felt a sudden tender pity for her. If you pity someone, you feel very sorry for them.

Detailed explanation-3: -a feeling of sadness or sympathy for someone else’s unhappiness or difficult situation: The girl stood gazing in/with pity at the old lion in the cage. She agreed to go out with him more out of pity than anything.

Detailed explanation-4: -It’s degrading. It’s looking at someone and reducing everything they are and could be down to what you think their life must be like-pitiful. I have a disability and avoid people who offer pity.