Compersion vs Contract - What's the difference?
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The feeling of joy one has experiencing another's joy, such as in witnessing a toddler's joy and feeling joy in response.
The feeling of joy associated with seeing a loved one love another; contrasted with jealousy.
*1998 , Ayala Malach Pines, Romantic Jealousy'', ''Causes, Symptoms, Cures , Routledge, ISBN 0415920108, page 140
*2003 , Mystic Life (author), Spiritual Polyamory , iUniverse, ISBN 0595305415, page 46
*2005 , Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio (editor), Plural Loves , Haworth Press, ISBN 1560232935, page 174
*2006 , Ronald C. Fox, Ph.D. (editor), Affirmative Psychotherapy with Bisexual Women and Bisexual Men , Haworth Press, ISBN 1560232994, page 140
An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= (legal) An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.
(legal) A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
(informal) An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
(bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
(obsolete) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
(obsolete) Not abstract; concrete.
* Robert Recorde, , 1557:
(ambitransitive) To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
* Wordsworth
* Dr. H. More
(grammar) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
To enter into a contract with. (rfex)
To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
* Hakluyt
* Strype
To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
* Alexander Pope
* Jonathan Swift
To gain or acquire (an illness).
* 1999 , Davidson C. Umeh, Protect Your Life: A Health Handbook for Law Enforcement Professionals (page 69)
To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
* Shakespeare
To betroth; to affiance.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between compersion and contract
is that compersion is the feeling of joy one has experiencing another's joy, such as in witnessing a toddler's joy and feeling joy in response while contract is an agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.As an adjective contract is
(obsolete) contracted; affianced; betrothed.As a verb contract is
(ambitransitive) to draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.compersion
English
(wikipedia compersion)Noun
(-)- A major component of jealousy, for many people, is the suspicion or resentment of the rival. In Kerista, on the other hand, the relationship that every man had with the other men and that every woman had with the other women elicited what they called “compersion ” rather than jealousy.
- There is nothing either magical or wrong with sex with more than one person at the same time.... The beautiful thing about this dynamic is that it offers opportunities for compersion (the opposite of jealousy) and is symbolic of the expansiveness and unity we can feel in our love for each other.
- I think this is the easiest way to teach compersion , to immerse oneself in the unconditional approval of another person’s pleasure.
- We usually seek compersion in the context of our lover being sexual with another person, which can be very beautiful, but equally scary....
- Compersion is the coveted secret elixer of emotions because it promises to turn the pain of jealousy into an ecstatic calm, or ecstatic release.
- Some polyamorous people experience compersion , which means feeling joy that one’s partner is sharing closeness with another person (Keener, 2004; Polyamory Society, 1997). Keener’s (2004) study participants noted an absence of worry as to whether their partners might be cheating
Antonyms
* jealousycontract
English
(wikipedia contract)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) contract, from (etyl) contractum, past participle of .Noun
(en noun)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
Hypernyms
* (agreement that is legally binding) agreementHyponyms
* (agreement that is legally binding) bailmentDerived terms
* contractual * fixed-term contract * contract of employmentAdjective
(-)- (Shakespeare)
- But now in eche kinde of these, there are certaine nombers named Ab?tracte'': and other called nombers ''Contracte .
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) contracter, from (etyl) contractum, past participle of . the verb developed after the noun, and originally meant only "draw together"; the sense "make a contract with" developed later.Verb
(en verb)- The snail's body contracted into its shell.
- to contract one's sphere of action
- Years contracting to a moment.
- In all things desuetude doth contract and narrow our faculties.
- The word "cannot" is often contracted into "can't".
- We have contracted an inviolable amity, peace, and league with the aforesaid queen.
- Many persons prohibited by law.
- to contract for carrying the mail
- She contracted the habit of smoking in her teens.
- to contract a debt
- Each from each contract new strength and light.
- Such behaviour we contract by having much conversed with persons of high stature.
- An officer contracted hepatitis B and died after handling the blood-soaked clothing of a homicide victim
- Thou didst contract and purse thy brow.
- The truth is, she and I, long since contracted , / Are now so sure, that nothing can dissolve us.