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compersion

(originally, US, neologism) The feeling of joy one has experiencing another's joy, such as in witnessing a toddler's joy and feeling joy in response.

kəmˈpɜːʒn̩Documented since 1990s1990sMillennialhistoricalCurrent119 viewsLast reviewed Jun 29, 2026+ Add a definition
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Born ~1990 · 1 year of recorded use
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#1·Apr 27, 2026

(originally, US, neologism) The feeling of joy one has experiencing another's joy, such as in witnessing a toddler's joy and feeling joy in response.

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 expansi…
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#2·Apr 27, 2026

(originally, US, neologism) Vicarious joy associated with seeing one's partner have a joyful romantic or sexual relationship with another person.

Origin: in the early 1990s by a group of members of the Kerista Commune, a polyamorous group based in San Francisco, California, U.S.A., in existence between 1956 and 1991, apparently randomly using an alphabet board (similar to a Ouija board), with . The hypothesis that the word is derived from + English -sion (a variant of -tion), based on an earlier use of by the French anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) to denote the practice of brothers-in-law sharing wives observed among Tupi people of the Brazilian Amazon, is less plausible: a website run by former members of the. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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  • “#kinky #stag #vixen #hotwife #compersion #partners”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “You’d be surprised how much you have in common when you talk about your fantasies with your wife. #kinky #stag #vixen #hotwife #compersion #mfm”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “All he could do was whimper on the young man’s cock as his worked his ass with a huge dildo #kinky #bisex #pegging #mmf #mfm #stag #vixen #compersion #partners”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “She quickly regretted asking him to cuff her hands. All she desired was to touch her soaking wet pussy as she watched the girl from tinder make her husband cum #kinky #cuckquean #cuckcake #hothusband #stag #vixen #compersion #partners”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “When the passion takes over #kinky #cumkiss #stage #vixen #bisex #hotwife #compersion #partners #mmf #mfm”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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