pity

nouns

a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
"the blind are too often objects of pity"
commiseration, pathos, pity, ruth
is derived from
piteous
an unfortunate development
"it's a pity he couldn't do it"
pity, shame
is derived from
piteous
the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it
compassion, pity

verbs

share the suffering of
compassionate, condole with, feel for, pity, sympathize with