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empathy

noun

  1. capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the latter's frame of reference
  2. act or process of feeling and sharing the feelings of another
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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.

  1. 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?

  2. The capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.
  3. A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.
  4. MDMA.