Meanings
- Pertaining to or exhibiting compersion.
Whether poly people as a whole have achieved the intended compersive intimacy is debatable, [...]
2015, Jillian Deri, Love's Refraction: Jealousy and Compersion in Queer Women's Polyamorous Relationships, →ISBN2 more examples
—which (according to Lovelock's predictions) could be as little as just Antarctica—we will have to be very symbiotic and compersive indeed.
2010, Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly Planet, →ISBNIt's one thing, people say, to be compersive about a colleague's success, but it's quite another to feel happy about your partner being intimate with someone other than you. Yet, it is possible to cultivate compersion in any social situation, [...]
2015, Opening Love, →ISBN
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with compersive
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compersive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/compersive
“compersive.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/compersive. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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