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同感
Meaning in Englishagreement, same opinion, same feeling
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What it means
同感 means feeling the same as someone else; to share a similar sentiment or be in agreement with another person’s view.
Main meanings
- Sharing the same emotional response or stance with another's remark, indicating agreement or alignment in perspective
- Expressing sympathy or understanding of someone’s situation by acknowledging the same feeling
- Used in formal or polite contexts to signal agreement, often with phrases like 同感です or 私も同感だ
How to use it
Contexts: used as a noun to denote agreement or shared feelings; frequently appears in conversations, emails, meetings, debates, and social media comments; typical collocations include 同感です, 同感だ, doukan in dictionaries.
Variants and close terms
- 共感 kyokan — empathy, identification
- 賛同 sando — agreement or endorsement
- 反感 hankan — aversion (antonym)
Composition
- 同: same
- 感: feeling
- 合成の意味: two kanji combine to express sharing the same feeling
Word class
Noun (名詞)
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Related words by kanji and components
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混同
kondou
confusion, mixing, merger
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同調
douchou
sympathy, agree with, alignment
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同等
doutou
equality, equal, same rank
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同封
doufuu
enclosure (e.g., in a letter)
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同盟
doumei
alliance, union, league
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鈍感
donkan
thickheadedness, stolidity
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一同
ichidou
all present, all concerned, all of us
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同い年
onaidoshi
of the same age
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感触
kanshoku
sense of touch, feeling, sensation
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