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English

Etymology

A twentieth-century borrowing of Ancient Greek ἐμπάθεια (empatheia), literally ‘passion’ (formed from εν- en-, ‘in, at’ + πάθος pathos ‘feeling’), coined by w:Rudolf Lotze|Rudolf Lotze to translate German Einfühlung. The modern Greek word εμπάθεια has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone.

Noun

  1. the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person
  2. capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding


Translations

  • Russian: умение поставить себя на место другого

Category:Greek derivations

el:empathy fr:empathy io:empathy it:empathy ja:empathy fi:empathy ta:empathy vi:empathy zh:empathy

WordNet empathy
n : understanding and entering into another's feelings
Moby Dictionary
accent , accentuation , accord , accordance , affinity , agape ,
agreement , allergy , amity , anaphylaxis , appreciation , attention ,
bonds of harmony , brotherly love , caring , caritas ,
cement of friendship , charity , chord , communion , community ,
community of interests , compassion , compatibility , comprehension ,
concern , concord , concordance , congeniality , considerateness ,
correspondence , delicacy , echo , emphasis , esprit , esprit de corps ,
exquisiteness , feeling of identity , fellow feeling , fellowship ,
fineness , force , frictionlessness , good vibes , good vibrations ,
happy family , harmony , hyperesthesia , hyperpathia ,
hypersensitivity , identification , identity , insistence ,
involvement , irritability , kinship , like-mindedness , love ,
mutuality , nervousness , oneness , oversensibility ,
oversensitiveness , overtenderness , passibility , pathos , peace ,
perceptiveness , perceptivity , photophobia , prickliness , rapport ,
rapprochement , reciprocity , relating , response , responsiveness ,
sensitiveness , sensitivity , sensitization , sharing , solidarity ,
soreness , stress , supersensitivity , sympathetic chord ,
sympathetic response , sympathy , symphony , tact , tactfulness ,
team spirit , tenderness , tetchiness , thin skin , ticklishness ,
touchiness , understanding , union , unison , unity , vibes , vibrations ,
warmth , weight


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