empathy

Definition of empathy in English English dictionary: capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding; the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person; capacity to understand another persons point of view or the result of such understanding; How well do service providers adapt and customize what they offer to meet customer needs Perhaps it's the dentist who lets you schedule your check-ups early in the morning so you can still get to work on time or the maid service that cleans your house according to your preferences; Rarely used in modern parapsychology, the popular usage of this term refers to a low-level form of telepathy wherein the empath appears to be aware of the emotional state of a distant person An empath may also refer tp someone thought able to 'broadcast' their emotions to others (cf DMILS, ESP and see also the Psi / DMILS section on the KPU webpage); The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also : the capacity for this; An understanding of events, beliefs, values and attitudes from the perspective of others; understanding and entering into another's feelings; The ability to experience sympathetically the emotions of another; the emotional penetration of another person, frequently used in connection with the creator of a work of art; Audience members' identification with dramatic characters and their consequent shared feelings with the plights and fortunes of those characters Empathy is one of the principal effects of good drama; Appreciation of another's problems and feelings without experiencing the same emotional reaction To be distinguished from sympathy, which is usually nonobjective and noncritical; If a poem creates empathy, the reader identifies with the person or object in the poem (the reader seems to share its physical sensations); is the capacity to accurately perceive and respond to another person's thoughts and feelings It is an active process in which you try to learn all you can about another person rather than having only a superficial awareness We all have an innate capacity for empathy; understanding another person's feelings by remembering or imagining being in a similar situation; The ability to understand and be sensitive towards another person's situation, struggles, or feelings; being able to identify with another person's feelings, motives, and situations; being able to put oneself in another's place; An act of imaginatively stepping into another person's perspective and considering how things look from over there, as if one were an insider while one is not one in fact Success in empathetic understanding would be a matter of having (temporarily, in an act of imagination) entered the perspective of the other person sufficiently well to be able to re-present it credibly to others, especially and above all in a way that is recognizable and credible to those persons who themselves occupy that perspective; The act of trying to understand what it would be like to be in someone else's position; The ability to attune one's moods and feelings to a wide range of emotional signals, so they can be felt and appreciated without a word being spoken It enables people to get on well with each other; The ability to identify and understand another person’s feelings, ideas, and circumstances; the understanding of another person’s feelings; A projection of one's own personality into the personality of another in order to understand him better; a psychological and aesthetic designation of the attitudes, reactions, and feelings that we experience when we identify with another person or object; feeling with another Reacting to the experiences of another as though they were one's own; {i} entering into the feelings of another, sympathy, vicarious emotion, understanding; the power of projecting one's personality into (and so fully comprehending) the object of contemplation Also EinfÃ¼lung, is a path towards the inland, an emotional contagion based on a process of identification (Weigert, 1962), the comprehension of what the other feels (M Scheler), a non-verbal communion among people (Fromm-Reichmann, 1950), a vicarian introspection (Kohut, 1977) According to Winnicot (1965) the empathic ability develops in the pre-verbal relationship between the child and whoever takes care of him; The feeling or capacity for awareness, understanding and sensitivity one experiences when hearing or reading of some event or activity of another, thus imagining the same sensation as that of those actually experiencing it; Experiencing feelings, thoughts, and attitudes of another; n Identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings and motives; Empathy is the ability to share another person's feelings and emotions as if they were your own. Having begun my life in a children's home I have great empathy with the little ones. the ability to understand other people's feelings and problems sympathy empathy with/for (empatheia, from pathos ). Ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The empathic actor or singer is one who genuinely feels the part he or she is performing. The spectator of a work of art or the reader of a piece of literature may similarly become involved in what he or she observes or contemplates. The use of empathy was an important part of the psychological counseling technique developed by Carl R. Rogers
empathy fatigue: Emotional detachment brought about by prolonged emotional exposure
No matter how well you prepare, people will succumb to empathy fatigue. Your first duty is to learn to recognize it before it has disastrous impact.
empathetically: in a sympathetic manner; "she listened to him sympathetically"
empathically: In an empathic manner
showed empathy: sympathized, showed understanding

empathy

Hyphenation

em·pa·thy

Turkish pronunciation

empıthi

Synonyms

affinity, appreciation, being on same wavelength, being there for someone, communion, community of interests, compassion, comprehension, concord, cottoning to, good vibrations, hitting it off, insight, picking up on, pity

Antonyms

apathy, misunderstanding, unfeelingness

Pronunciation

/ˈempəᴛʜē/ /ˈɛmpəθiː/

Etymology

[ 'em-p&-thE ] (noun.) 1904. A twentieth-century borrowing of Ancient Greek ἐμπάθεια (empatheia, literally “passion”) (formed from ἐν (en-, “in, at”) + πάθος (pathos, “feeling”)), coined by Edward Bradford Titchener to translate German Einfühlung. The modern Greek word εμπάθεια has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone.

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