Definitions of Empathy on the Web:
understanding and entering into another's feelings
Empathy, which literally translates as in feeling, is the capability to share another being's emotions and feelings.
the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person; capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding
empathic - showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states; "a sensitive and empathetic school counselor"
empathize - sympathize: be understanding of; "You don't need to explain--I understand!"
empathic - Showing or expressing empathy
empathize - to feel empathy for another person
empathically - In an empathic manner
The feeling or capacity for awareness, understanding, and sensitivity one experiences when hearing or reading of some event or activity of others, thus imagining the same sensations as that of those actually experiencing them.
ability to emotionally relate to another individual's emotional state.
The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also : the ...
A sense of shared experience, including emotional and physical feelings, with someone or something other than oneself. Empathy is often used to describe the response of a reader to a literary character. ...
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