what is empathy?

Answer 1

" the ability to take oneself out of oneself and put oneself into another person's world "
A sense of shared experience, including emotional and physical feelings, with someone or something other than oneself
understanding another person's feelings by remembering or imagining being in a similar situation

Answer 2

Empathy is a deep emotional understanding of another's feelings or problems. It is synonymous with compassion - deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it, even if that means only being able to help by listening and being supportive.

Answer 3

1: the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it
2: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also : the capacity for this

Answer 4

To empathise with someone is to be sympathetic towards them because you have personal experience of what they are going through.

Empathy is different to sympathy in that sympathy is simply feeling sorry for someone and empathy means you actually relate to them.

Answer 5

If you want the dictionary definition it's an "identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives" but that's kind of a simplistic explanation.

You can empathise with someone - understand and be able to explain their motives and feelings - without feeling any sympathy for them. It's how counselors and social workers are able to work with offenders like murderers and child-molesters and is an invaluable emotion if you can manage to find it within yourself.

Answer 6

to share in anothers feelings or experience

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em·pa·thy /ˈɛmpəθi/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[em-puh-thee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. the intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another.
2. the imaginative ascribing to an object, as a natural object or work of art, feelings or attitudes present in oneself: By means of empathy, a great painting becomes a mirror of the self.


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[Origin: 1900–05; < Gk empátheia affection, equiv. to em- em-2 + path- (base of páschein to suffer) + -eia -ia; present meaning translates G Einfühlung]


—Synonyms 1. See sympathy.

Answer 7

It's your ability to identify yourself mentally with another person, and as a result, being able to understand him.

Answer 8

It is thinking and understanding others by putting yourself in another person's shoes.

Answer 9

Intellectual or emotional identification with another person.

Answer 10

feelings and attitude present in oneself,ones ability to recognize perceive and feel.