empathy
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
A twentieth-century borrowing of Ancient Greek ἐμπάθεια (empatheia, literally “passion”) (formed from ἐν (en-, “in, at”) + πάθος (pathos, “feeling”)), coined by Edward Bradford Titchener to translate German Einfühlung. The modern Greek word εμπάθεια has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone.
Noun [edit]
Wikipedia empathy (countable and uncountable; plural empathies)
- 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
- She had a lot of empathy for her neighbor; she knew what it was like to lose a parent too.
- (parapsychology, science fiction) a paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions
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Translations [edit]
intellectual identification
capacity to understand another person's point of view