empathy
empathy
/ˈempəθi/
the ability to understand another person’s feelings, experience, etc.
empathy (with somebody/something) the writer’s imaginative empathy with his subject
empathy (for somebody/something) empathy for other people’s situations
empathy (between A and B) The empathy between the two women was obvious.
She had a deep empathy with animals.
The nurse should try to develop empathy between herself and the patient.
Both authors have the skill to make you feel empathy with their heroines.
It is important to develop the empathy between dogs and their handlers.
She shows a lack of empathy for other people's situations.
Collocations
adjective
verb + empathy
preposition
empathy between
empathy for
empathy with
phrases
a feeling of empathy
a lack of empathy
Word Origin
early 20th cent.: from Greek empatheia (from em- ‘in’ + pathos ‘feeling’) translating German Einfühlung.
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