Comfort received by someone after a loss or disappointment, or something that provides such comfort.
From Latin consolatio, from consolari meaning 'to comfort thoroughly.' The prefix con- intensifies the root solari (to comfort), related to solace.
The Latin root connects consolation to the sun (sol), suggesting that comfort was originally conceived as bringing light and warmth to someone in darkness - a beautiful metaphor embedded in the word's DNA.
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