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empathy
English
Etymology
A twentieth-century borrowing from Ancient Greek ???????? (empátheia, literally “passion”) (formed from ?? (en, “in, at”) + ????? (páthos, “feeling”)), coined by Edward Bradford Titchener in 1909 to translate German Einfühlung. The modern word in Greek ???????? (empátheia) has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??mp??i/
Noun
empathy (countable and uncountable, plural empathies)
- Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person.
- Capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.
- (parapsychology, science fiction) A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.
- (obsolete slang) MDMA.
- Synonym: ecstasy
Usage notes
Used similarly to sympathy, interchangeably in looser usage. In stricter usage, empathy is stronger and more intimate, meaning that the subject understands and shares an emotion with the object—as in “I feel your pain”—while sympathy is weaker and more distant—concern, but not shared emotion: “I care for you”.
Derived terms
- empath
Translations
See also
- telepathy
- biopathy
- cyberpathy
- technopathy
- sympathy
Further reading
- empathy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- empathy at OneLook Dictionary Search
- empathy in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- empathy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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sympathies
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?mp??iz/
- Hyphenation: sym?pa?thies
Noun
sympathies
- plural of sympathy
Anagrams
- metaphysis, sympathise
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