Empathy

Noun

 * 1) the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person
 * 2) capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding

Thesaurus
accent, accentuation, accord, accordance, affinity, agape, agreement, allergy, amity, anaphylaxis, appreciation, attention, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, caring, caritas, cement of friendship, charity, chord, communion, community, community of interests, compassion, compatibility, comprehension, concern, concord, concordance, congeniality, considerateness, correspondence, delicacy, echo, emphasis, esprit, esprit de corps, exquisiteness, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, fineness, force, frictionlessness, good vibes, good vibrations, happy family, harmony, hyperesthesia, hyperpathia, hypersensitivity, identification, identity, insistence, involvement, irritability, kinship, like-mindedness, love, mutuality, nervousness, oneness, oversensibility, oversensitiveness, overtenderness, passibility, pathos, peace, perceptiveness, perceptivity, photophobia, prickliness, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, relating, response, responsiveness, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensitization, sharing, solidarity, soreness, stress, supersensitivity, sympathetic chord, sympathetic response, sympathy, symphony, tact, tactfulness, team spirit, tenderness, tetchiness, thin skin, ticklishness, touchiness, understanding, union, unison, unity, vibes, vibrations, warmth, weight

Etymology
A twentieth-century borrowing of ἐμπάθεια: (formed from ἐν: + πάθος:), coined by Edward Bradford Titchener to translate German Einfühlung. The modern Greek word has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone.

Translations

 * Esperanto: empatio
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 * Hebrew: אמפתיה
 * Polish:
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 * Romanian:
 * Turkish: empati


 * Danish: empati
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