Feeling or expressing sadness together with others; mutually mournful or sorrowful.
Combination of 'co-' (together) + 'mournful' (full of sorrow). Mournful comes from Old English 'murnan' meaning 'to mourn or care for.' This rare adjective emerged to describe shared emotional states.
This archaic word captures something modern psychology calls 'emotional contagion'—grief literally spreads between people through mirror neurons in our brains, so comournful experiences are actually neurologically synchronized.
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