compersion

Meaning

Noun

• Vicarious joy associated with seeing one's partner have a joyful romantic or sexual relation with another.

Origin

• Coined by the Kerista Community in the 1970s. Possibly derived from French compère, plus -sion, based on an earlier use of the French compérage to denote the practice of brothers-in-law sharing wives observed among Tupi people of the Brazilian Amazon.