What does empathetic mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. empathic, empatheticadjective

    showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states

    "a sensitive and empathetic school counselor"

Wiktionary

  1. empatheticadjective

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

Wikipedia

  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.

ChatGPT

  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.

Editors Contribution

  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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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. Katherine Foss:

    There is a lot of information on Anita Hill upbringing. Even on Fox News, they had a story where someone said, I understand why Anita Hill didn't come forward sooner, this is not something you saw with Anita Hill. That kind of empathetic view is a big difference between what we saw in the'90s versus now.

  2. 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.

  3. Joe Biden:

    We've seen the struggle, and we know that most American families are dealing with some sort of struggle like we are, and I think they can relate to us, you know, as parents who are hopeful and are supportive of our son, and we will continue to be supportive. And I think that makes us more empathetic about helping other Americans.

  4. 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.

  5. Charlie Crist:

    Karla Hernández-Mats wasn't just Karla Hernández-Mats, Karla Hernández-Mats was a teacher of special needs children. American Federation of Teachers's American Federation of Teachers, american Federation of Teachers's a heart, caring, loving, empathetic, compassionate -- American Federation of Teachers's what we don't have in the governor's office right now.

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