consolation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Comfort you feel after a disappointment or loss.

   Second place was little consolation to the team after a hard-fought match.

2. 2
   noun

   The act of comforting someone who is sad or upset.

   Offer your friends consolation in their times of need.

From Old French consolacion (French consolatio), from Latin cōnsōlātiō, from the deponent verb cōnsōlor (“I console, encourage”) with the -tiō suffix, while cōnsōlor comprises the intensifying prefix con- with the deponent verb sōlor (“I comfort, console”). Equivalent to console + -ation. Doublet of consolatio.

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