with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person.
She had a lot of empathy for her neighbor; she knew what it was like to lose a parent too.
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The capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.
While Musk said he believes in empathy and that “you should care about other people,” he also thinks it’s destroying society.
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(parapsychology, science fiction) A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.
She had a lot of empathy for her neighbor; she knew what it was like to lose a parent too.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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