A few days ago
Anonymous

what does this word mean?

what is empathy?

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A few days ago
H@RRiSoNHiPPo

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i think it means to understand someone’s feelings but u should look it up on answers.com or sumthing
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A few days ago
Lisa B
Empathy is the ability to understand how other people feel, usually with a positive, supportive attitude.
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A few days ago
Redeemer
Empathy means being able to feel how someone is feeling. Like, if a friend’s dog died, you’ll feel empathic if you also had a dog and it died. That’s empathy!
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A few days ago
crazycanadien
Empathy: can be defined as one’s ability to recognize,perceive and directly feel the emotions of another.
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A few days ago
Erin M
“Empathy (from the Greek εμπάθεια, “physical affection, partiality”) is commonly defined as one’s ability to recognize, perceive and directly feel the emotion of another.”

Empathy is usually used when a person can directly sympathize with the feelings of another, because they have gone through the same circumstances as the other.

Don’t confuse it with sympathy with is the following:

“Sympathy is an emotional affinity in which whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other.”

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A few days ago
Anonymous
Caring and understanding.

-MM

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