Definitions for empathetic
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1. empathic, empatheticadjective

   showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states

   "a sensitive and empathetic school counselor"

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1. empatheticadjective

   Showing empathy for others, and recognizing their feelings etc; empathic

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1. Empathetic

   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.

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1. empathetic

   Empathetic refers to the ability or act of understanding, being aware of, and sharing the feelings and emotions of another person. It involves seeing things from another person's perspective or experiencing their emotions as if they were one's own. Being empathetic includes recognizing the emotions others are feeling and responding to them appropriately.

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1. empathetic

   The ability and quality of showing empathy.

   They were very empathetic to each other and united to change easily what causes the current perception.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 25, 2020  

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1. Empathetic

   Empathic vs. Empathetic -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Empathic and Empathetic.

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1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of empathetic in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of empathetic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of empathetic in a Sentence

1. Tom Brady:

   That’s obviously a difficult situation. I think we all want him to … I think everybody should find, hopefully, do what they can to help him in ways he really needs it. We all love him, we all care about him deeply. We want to see him be at his best and unfortunately it won’t be with our team, we have a lot of friendships that will last. Again, I think that the most important thing about football are the relationships with your friends and your teammates, and they go beyond the field. I think everyone should be very compassionate and empathetic toward some very difficult things.

2. Nicole Kidman:

   It melts my heart … they are generous and they are empathetic. I love that about them. They went to see ‘ Beauty and the Beast, ’ and they had tears rolling down their faces because they care about the beast, they have those kind eyes. When you talk about beauty, I always look deep into people’s eyes. That’s where you see the real person.

3. Anthony Fauci:

   You know, people think sometimes that public health officials are oblivious to the economic considerations. Not at all -- I mean, we are very empathetic towards that, but we still have to maintain the public health measures if we're going to get our arms around this outbreak.

4. Lori Day:

   The shaming and the anger and the 'you're dumb' kind of stuff that people are doing isn't working, i think it is making people dig in more and it seems to me what has to happen is a different type of dialogue that is a little bit more empathetic and more listening and more saying, 'I understand how you feel and that this is scary.'.

5. Mayor Ginger Nelson:

   No one expects to be on a cancer journey, and I'm in my 40s, so I'm not in the normal Covid high-risk age range, but it has given me a very empathetic perspective to someone who is.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=empathetic
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Empathetic
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathetic
4. ^ ChatGPT
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