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EnglishMerriam-Webster Dictionaryem·pa·thy
ˈem-pə-thē Definition
- : the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another //Lead by example and demonstrate the power of empathy and compassion. — Shari Bailey //There's no love in this character, no hidden empathy or tenderness that surfaces late in the story. — Julie Hinds //A little politeness, respect and empathy go a long way toward making our online experiences enjoyable and fulfilling. — Jim Sabataso //Seen from the protagonists' worldview, the film becomes an earnest call for empathy in a country that is witnessing an unprecedented influx of immigrants. — Emiliano Granadaalso : the capacity for this //… the bully shows a lack of empathy and may joke at another person's expense. — Sherri Gordon //We often think of empathy—people's ability to share and understand each other's experiences—as a hard-wired trait, but it's actually more like a skill. The right experiences, habits and practices can increase our empathic capacity … — Jamil Zaki
- : the act of imagining one's ideas, feelings, or attitudes as fully inhabiting something observed (such as a work of art or natural occurrence) : the imaginative projection (see projection sense 6b) of a subjective (see subjective entry 1 sense 3a) state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it //To have empathy, in the early 1900s, was to enliven an object. … Some of the earliest psychology experiments on empathy focused on … a bodily feeling or movement that produced a sense of merging with an object. One subject imagining a bunch of grapes felt “a cool, juicy feeling all over.” — Susan Lanzoni
Usage of empathy and sympathy
Sympathy is a feeling of sincere concern for someone who is experiencing something difficult or painful. Empathy involves actively sharing in the person's emotional experience. Confusion about the pair of words likely stems from the fact that the word sympathy, which dates to the 16th century, at one time carried both of these meanings. When empathy was coined in the early 20th century it was first applied in contexts of philosophy, aesthetics, and psychology, in which it still has technical use. The common use of empathy known today dates to the mid-20th century.Examples
- //He felt great empathy with the poor.
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em·pa·thy
ˈem-pə-thē Definition
- : the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another //Lead by example and demonstrate the power of empathy and compassion. — Shari Bailey //There's no love in this character, no hidden empathy or tenderness that surfaces late in the story. — Julie Hinds //A little politeness, respect and empathy go a long way toward making our online experiences enjoyable and fulfilling. — Jim Sabataso //Seen from the protagonists' worldview, the film becomes an earnest call for empathy in a country that is witnessing an unprecedented influx of immigrants. — Emiliano Granadaalso : the capacity for this //… the bully shows a lack of empathy and may joke at another person's expense. — Sherri Gordon //We often think of empathy—people's ability to share and understand each other's experiences—as a hard-wired trait, but it's actually more like a skill. The right experiences, habits and practices can increase our empathic capacity … — Jamil Zaki
- : the act of imagining one's ideas, feelings, or attitudes as fully inhabiting something observed (such as a work of art or natural occurrence) : the imaginative projection (see projection sense 6b) of a subjective (see subjective entry 1 sense 3a) state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it //To have empathy, in the early 1900s, was to enliven an object. … Some of the earliest psychology experiments on empathy focused on … a bodily feeling or movement that produced a sense of merging with an object. One subject imagining a bunch of grapes felt “a cool, juicy feeling all over.” — Susan Lanzoni
Usage of empathy and sympathy
Sympathy is a feeling of sincere concern for someone who is experiencing something difficult or painful. Empathy involves actively sharing in the person's emotional experience. Confusion about the pair of words likely stems from the fact that the word sympathy, which dates to the 16th century, at one time carried both of these meanings. When empathy was coined in the early 20th century it was first applied in contexts of philosophy, aesthetics, and psychology, in which it still has technical use. The common use of empathy known today dates to the mid-20th century.Examples
- //He felt great empathy with the poor.
- role='text'>noun
em·pa·thy
ˈem-pə-thē Definition
- : the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another //Lead by example and demonstrate the power of empathy and compassion. — Shari Bailey //There's no love in this character, no hidden empathy or tenderness that surfaces late in the story. — Julie Hinds //A little politeness, respect and empathy go a long way toward making our online experiences enjoyable and fulfilling. — Jim Sabataso //Seen from the protagonists' worldview, the film becomes an earnest call for empathy in a country that is witnessing an unprecedented influx of immigrants. — Emiliano Granadaalso : the capacity for this //… the bully shows a lack of empathy and may joke at another person's expense. — Sherri Gordon //We often think of empathy—people's ability to share and understand each other's experiences—as a hard-wired trait, but it's actually more like a skill. The right experiences, habits and practices can increase our empathic capacity … — Jamil Zaki
- : the act of imagining one's ideas, feelings, or attitudes as fully inhabiting something observed (such as a work of art or natural occurrence) : the imaginative projection (see projection sense 6b) of a subjective (see subjective entry 1 sense 3a) state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it //To have empathy, in the early 1900s, was to enliven an object. … Some of the earliest psychology experiments on empathy focused on … a bodily feeling or movement that produced a sense of merging with an object. One subject imagining a bunch of grapes felt “a cool, juicy feeling all over.” — Susan Lanzoni
Usage of empathy and sympathy
Sympathy is a feeling of sincere concern for someone who is experiencing something difficult or painful. Empathy involves actively sharing in the person's emotional experience. Confusion about the pair of words likely stems from the fact that the word sympathy, which dates to the 16th century, at one time carried both of these meanings. When empathy was coined in the early 20th century it was first applied in contexts of philosophy, aesthetics, and psychology, in which it still has technical use. The common use of empathy known today dates to the mid-20th century.Examples
- //He felt great empathy with the poor.