Definitions for empathy
ˈɛm pə θiem·pa·thy

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.3 / 3 votes

1. empathynoun

   understanding and entering into another's feelings

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. empathynoun

   the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person

2. empathynoun

   capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding

   She had a lot of empathy for her neighbor; she knew what it was like to lose a parent too.

3. empathynoun

   a paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions

4. Etymology: A twentieth-century borrowing of ἐμπάθεια (formed from ἐν + πάθος), coined by Edward Bradford Titchener to translate German Einfühlung. The modern Greek word has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Empathy

   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. empathy

   Empathy is the capacity to understand and share the feelings, emotions or experiences of another person. It involves being able to put oneself in the other person's place, seeing things from their point of view, creating a sense of shared experience.

WikidataRate this definition:4.3 / 3 votes

1. Empathy

   Empathy is the capacity to recognize emotions that are being experienced by another sentient or fictional being. One may need to have a certain amount of empathy before being able to experience accurate sympathy or compassion. The English word was coined in 1909 by the psychologist Edward B. Titchener in an attempt to translate the German word "Einfühlungsvermögen", a new phenomenon explored at the end of 19th century mainly by philosopher Theodor Lipps. It was later re-translated into the German language as "Empathie", and is still in use there.

U.S. National Library of MedicineRate this definition:2.8 / 4 votes

1. Empathy

   An individual's objective and insightful awareness of the feelings and behavior of another person. It should be distinguished from sympathy, which is usually nonobjective and noncritical. It includes caring, which is the demonstration of an awareness of and a concern for the good of others. (From Bioethics Thesaurus, 1992)

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1. empathy

   The ability to intuitively feel, know and understand what a person, collective or group is feeling and to listen and understand their feeling, experience, intention, perception, perspective and respond with a sense of unity, ethics, morality, privacy, respect and what is just and fair for everyone.

   Empathy is a beautiful human attribute and quality that we choose for all of humanity to have and it is vital to the achievement of peace on earth.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 19, 2017  

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1. Empathy

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

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of empathy in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of empathy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of empathy in a Sentence

1. Jenny Radesky:

   You have to work to read what your dog is thinking and respond to their behavior. That gets kids out of their headspace and more thinking about what another being is thinking, that's [ the magical factor ] of empathy and social reciprocity, meaning the back and forth of relationships that helps us heal during times of stress.

2. John Kelly:

   If nobody cared about him as a child growing up, then he didn’t have that empathy, why does he have no remorse or no guilt or no empathy for other human beings? I’ve seen this in a lot of serial killers, because they were abused.

3. Brandon Caserta:

   There is no remorse for immoral cowards, empathy is only reserved for the good.

4. Ruben Gallego:

   With the Arizona Primary less than two weeks away, I'm proud to endorse Joe Biden for President. As a combat veteran I can think of no better leader to serve as our Commander in Chief, i know Joe Biden for President has the wisdom, experience, compassion, and empathy to beat Donald Trump and get our government working again.

5. Maureen O'Hara:

   A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=empathy
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Empathy
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=empathy