empathy
nounEtymology
A twentieth-century borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐμπάθεια (empátheia, literally “passion”) (formed from ἐν (en, “in, at”) + πάθος (páthos, “feeling”)), equivalent to em- + -pathy, coined by Edward Bradford Titchener in 1909 to translate German Einfühlung. The modern word in Greek εμπάθεια (empátheia) has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone.
- calqued from Einfühlung
- borrowed from ἐμπάθεια
Definitions
Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of…
Identification 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.
- Like your body's in the room but you're not really there / Like you have empathy inside but you don't really care / Like you're fresh outta love but it's been in the air / Am I past repair?
- While Musk said he believes in empathy and that “you should care about other people,” he also thinks it’s destroying society.
The capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such…
The capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.
A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.
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MDMA.
The neighborhood
- neighborsympathy
- neighbortechnopathy
- neighbortelepathy
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at empathy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at empathy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at empathy
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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