empathy

== English == === Etymology === A twentieth-century borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐμπάθεια (empátheia, literally “passion”) (formed from ἐν (en, “in, at”) + πάθος (páthos, “feeling”)), equivalent to em- +‎ -pathy, coined by Edward Bradford Titchener in 1909 to translate German Einfühlung. The modern word in Greek εμπάθεια (empátheia) has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɛmpəθi/ === Noun === empathy (countable and uncountable, plural empathies) Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person. Synonym: fellow feeling The capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding. (parapsychology, science fiction) A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions. (obsolete slang) MDMA. Synonym: ecstasy ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === === Further reading === empathy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “empathy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. empathy in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “empathy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === External links === Paul Brians: "empathy" vs. "sympathy"