Behavior
empathy Audio
em·pa·thy [ em-puh-thee ]
Subclass of:
Emotional Intelligence; Personality
Definitions related to empathy:
  • An individual's objective and insightful awareness of the feelings and behavior of another person. It should be distinguished from sympathy, which is usually nonobjective and noncritical. It includes caring, which is the demonstration of an awareness of and a concern for the good of others. (From Bioethics Thesaurus, 1992)
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Individual's objective and insightful awareness of the feelings, mood, sufferings, situations and behavior of another person without these feelings being orally communicated; distinguished from sympathy, which is usually nonobjective and noncritical.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Empathy, the ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. It is a term coined in the early 20th century, equivalent to the German Einfuhlung and modeled on "sympathy." The term is used with special (but not exclusive) reference to...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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