noun
affection; compassion; warm feelings; love
Refers to deep emotional warmth, affection, or compassionate love, often in a somewhat literary or formal context. Not as common in everyday speech as 愛情.
彼の情合いに満ちた言葉に心を打たれた。
I was moved by his words full of compassion.
この作品には人間同士の深い情合いが描かれている。
This work depicts the deep affection between people.
Compound of 情 (じょう, 'emotion, feeling') and 合い (あい, 'mutual, together'), literally 'mutual feeling'. The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word has been used in literary contexts to express deep emotional connection.