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empathetic, a. Psychol.|ɛmpəˈθɛtɪk|
[f. empathy + -ic, after such derivatives as sympathetic f. sympathy.]
= empathic a. Hence empaˈthetically adv.
1932Nation (N.Y.) 13 Apr. 432 The method..condemns the biographer to immerse himself in his subject's mind, to take a view that is more than ‘sympathetic’, that is indeed empathetic. 1933Archit. Rev. LXXIV. 222/1 What newly erected buildings have now any ‘empathetic’ influence on those they contain? 1949Koestler Insight & Outlook xxvi. 359 The richer the personality..the more empathetic understanding of others it will be capable of. 1961Listener 31 Aug. 326/3 Backache on my part, empathetically produced by those ingenious and toiling rice-planters. 1963H. Read Contrary Experience iii. ix. 280 We both spring from the same yeoman stock.., and I think I have a certain ‘empathetic’ understanding of his personality. |