empathy
noun
- capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the latter's frame of reference
- act or process of feeling and sharing the feelings of another
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɛmpəθi/
noun
Etymology: A twentieth-century borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐμπάθεια (empátheia, literally “passion”) (formed from ἐν (en, “in, at”) + πάθος (páthos, “feeling”)), equivalent to em- + -pathy, coined by Edward Bradford Titchener in 1909 to translate German Einfühlung. The modern word in Greek εμπάθεια (empátheia) has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone.
- Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person.
“She had a lot of empathy for her neighbor; she knew what it was like to lose a parent too.”
“Like your body's in the room but you're not really there / Like you have empathy inside but you don't really care / Like you're fresh outta love but it's been in the air / Am I past repair?”
- The capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.
- A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.
- MDMA.