2006-10-09 05:54:58 · 6 answers · asked by bobz 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Empathy means that you can feel for someone. For example if you told me your dog got ran over. I would feel bad for you and I could feel empathy for you. Hope this helps!
2006-10-09 06:02:37 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
empathy is when you have an understanding of what someone is feeling or been through and because you have been through a simular situation or the same situation as they have you will have empathy it is not just understand or feeling it is having actual experienced what they have too.
For example if you have a friend who is going through a divorce you can understand and be supportive but empathy is when you have experienced that same thing and fully understand what they are gong through.
That is my belief on empathy
2006-10-09 06:08:47 · answer #2 · answered by momof3 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sympathy is where you stand back and feel sorry for someone. Perhaps you never owned any pets but feel sympathy for someone whose dog died.
Empathy is more of a hands-on / getting stuck in approach. Often becasue you have had a similar bad experience. For example you have empathy with someone whose dog has died because it happend to you as well and you remeber how it felt.
2006-10-09 06:45:56 · answer #3 · answered by Stanleymonkey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Understanding other people's feelings, the ability to feel like sb else in a particular situation in order to understand them.
2006-10-09 05:57:07 · answer #4 · answered by Lady G. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try a dictionary. It's a book you can read to broaden your word power.
2006-10-09 06:07:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be able to put yourself in the shoes of someone else, in other words to understand how someone else is feeling
2006-10-09 05:59:33 · answer #6 · answered by monkey 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the ability to identify oneself mentaly with a person or thing,and so to understand his or her feelings or it's meaning.
2006-10-10 08:12:55 · answer #7 · answered by lesley.j13@btinternet.com 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the ability to know what another is feeling
2006-10-09 05:57:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.dictionary.com
and if you want the unoffical definition-means sympathy, sort of
2006-10-09 06:06:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋