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empath

noun
/ˈɛm.pæθ/

Etymology

From empathy.

Definitions

  1. A person with an abnormal higher level of empathy.

  2. A person with extrasensory empathic ability, capable of sensing the emotions of others…

    A person with extrasensory empathic ability, capable of sensing the emotions of others around them in a way unexplained by conventional science and psychology.

    • She was the empath who would betray empaths if she got the chance. So they'd tried to fix things so that she didn't get the chance.
    • How did a complete stranger know he was an empath? He rarely if ever talked about it, even to his closest friends. It made people uneasy.
    • The aura may, in fact, linger around objects or places and that "lingering energy" is what an empath senses and intuits.

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Derived

dark empath, telempath

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for empath. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA