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Empathy

//ˈɛmpəθi// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person. countable, uncountable

    "She had a lot of empathy for her neighbor; she knew what it was like to lose a parent too."

  2. 2
    understanding and entering into another's feelings wordnet
  3. 3
    The capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    MDMA. countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable

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.

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