empathy

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A twentieth-century borrowing of Ancient Greek ἐμπάθεια (empatheia), literally ‘passion’ (formed from εν- en-, ‘in, at’ + πάθος pathos ‘feeling’), coined by Rudolf Lotze to translate German Einfühlung. The modern Greek word εμπάθεια has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone.

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Singular
empathy

Plural
uncountable

empathy (uncountable)

  1. the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person
  2. capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding

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