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What (who) is empathy - definition
CAPACITY TO UNDERSTAND OR FEEL WHAT ANOTHER PERSON IS EXPERIENCING FROM WITHIN THE LATTER'S FRAME OF REFERENCE
Empaths in Fiction; Empathic; Emotional distance; Empathise; Empathy (Charmed); Empathic anger; Empathic distress; I Know How You Feel; Empathize; Empathetic; Einfühlung; Einfühlungsvermögen; Emotional empathy; Affective empathy; Cognitive empathy; Evolution of empathy; Empathy in psychopaths; Somatic empathy; Empathizing; Sex differences in empathy; Cold empathy; Genetics of empathy
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empathy
n.
1) to feel; show empathy
2) empathy with
empathy
Empathy is the ability to share another person's feelings and emotions as if they were your own.
Having begun my life in a children's home I have great empathy with the little ones.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N with/for n
empathy
['?mp??i]
¦ noun the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Derivatives
empathetic adjective
empathetically adverb
empathic ?m'pa??k adjective
empathically adverb
Origin
early 20th cent.: from Gk empatheia (from em- 'in' + pathos 'feeling') translating Ger. Einfuhlung.
Usage
People often confuse the words empathy and sympathy. Empathy means 'the ability to understand and share the feelings of another' (as in both authors have the skill to make you feel empathy with their heroines), whereas sympathy means 'feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune' (as in they had great sympathy for the flood victims).
Wikipedia
Empathy
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Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position. Definitions of empathy encompass a broad range of social, cognitive, and emotional processes primarily concerned with understanding others (and others' emotions in particular). Types of empathy include cognitive empathy, emotional (or affective) empathy, somatic empathy, and spiritual empathy.
Examples of use of empathy
1. New Yorkers feel particular empathy, just as Londoners showed empathy to New York.
2. Show empathy –– Your empathy reflects your capacity to see things from another person‘s point of view.
3. Its not about public suffering, but rather a special type of empathy the empathy of sweat.
4. Cameron offers empathy, understanding, even love.
5. His trip was about delivering something else _ presidential empathy.