EMPATHY DEFINITIONS - 6 definitions found
empathy n 1: understanding and entering into another's feelings Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) empathy noun Etymology: Greek empatheia, literally, passion, from empathēs emotional, from em- + pathos feelings, emotion — more at pathos Date: 1850 1. the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it 2. 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 capacity for this Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary 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 English Explanatory Dictionary empathy ˈempəθɪ n. Psychol. the power of identifying oneself mentally with (and so fully comprehending) a person or object of contemplation. øøempathetic adj. empathetically adv. empathic adj. empathically adv. empathist n. [transl. G Einfâhlung f. ein in + Fâhlung feeling, after Gk empatheia: see SYMPATHY] Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 105 Moby Thesaurus words for "empathy": accent, accentuation, accord, accordance, affinity, agape, agreement, allergy, amity, anaphylaxis, appreciation, attention, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, caring, caritas, cement of friendship, charity, chord, communion, community, community of interests, compassion, compatibility, comprehension, concern, concord, concordance, congeniality, considerateness, correspondence, delicacy, echo, emphasis, esprit, esprit de corps, exquisiteness, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, fineness, force, frictionlessness, good vibes, good vibrations, happy family, harmony, hyperesthesia, hyperpathia, hypersensitivity, identification, identity, insistence, involvement, irritability, kinship, like-mindedness, love, mutuality, nervousness, oneness, oversensibility, oversensitiveness, overtenderness, passibility, pathos, peace, perceptiveness, perceptivity, photophobia, prickliness, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, relating, response, responsiveness, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensitization, sharing, solidarity, soreness, stress, supersensitivity, sympathetic chord, sympathetic response, sympathy, symphony, tact, tactfulness, team spirit, tenderness, tetchiness, thin skin, ticklishness, touchiness, understanding, union, unison, unity, vibes, vibrations, warmth, weight |
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