Friday 11th November 2016
Empathy - /ˈɛmpəθi/
Noun
[mass noun] The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
[mass noun] The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Example sentences
Noun
‘Finally,
proximity makes for empathy and
justifies the inevitable risks for intervention’
‘A
little bit of empathy and
understanding might go a long way in making their life easier’
Usage
People
often confuse the words empathy and
sympathy. Empathy means ‘the ability
to understand and share the feelings of another’ (as in both authors have the
skill to make you feel empathy with
their heroines), whereas sympathy means ‘feelings of pity and sorrow for
someone else's misfortune’ (as in they had great sympathy for the flood
victims)
Origin
Early 20th century: from Greek empatheia (from em- in +
pathos feeling) translating German Einfühlung.
Thanks to: www.oxforddictionaries.com
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