empathynoun [ U ]
uk/ˈem.pə.θi/us/ˈem.pə.θi/C2 the ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person's situation
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Empathy and sensitivity
- attuned
- commune
- communion
- emotional intelligence
- empathetic
- identify
- identify with sb
- project
- put
- put yourself in sb's place/position/shoes idiom
- rapport
- relate
- relate to sb
- self-discovery
- sensitive
- sensitivity
- sympathetic
- sympathize
- understand
- understanding
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Examples from literature
- Part of it may not be empathy, but simply be precaution and an insurance for the event of personal misfortune.
- Some of the settlers had empathy with the dolphins to a high degree, but Ross's own powers of contact were relatively feeble.