Medical term:
empathy
empathy
[em´pah-the]intellectual and emotional awareness and understanding of another person's thoughts, feelings, and behavior, even those that are distressing and disturbing. Empathy emphasizes understanding; sympathy emphasizes sharing of another person's feelings and experiences.
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em·pa·thy
(em'pă-thē),1. The ability to sense intellectually and emotionally the emotions, feelings, and reactions that another person is experiencing and to communicate that understanding to the person effectively. Compare: sympathy (3).
2. The anthropomorphization or humanization of objects and the feeling of oneself as being in and part of them.
[G. en (em), in, + pathos, feeling]
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empathy
(ĕm′pə-thē)n.
1. The ability to identify with or understand the perspective, experiences, or motivations of another individual or to comprehend and share another individual's emotional state.
2. In aesthetics, the projection of one's own feelings or thoughts on to something else, such as an object in work of art or a character in a novel or film.
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em·pa·thy
(em'pă-thē)1. The ability to sense the emotions, feelings, and reactions intellectually and emotionally that another person is experiencing and to communicate that understanding to the person effectively.
Compare: sympathy (3)
Compare: sympathy (3)
2. The anthropomorphization or humanizing of objects and the feeling of oneself as being in and part of them.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
empathy
The state said to exist between two people when one is able to experience the same emotion as the other as a result of identical responses to an event and the adoption of an identical outlook.Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005
em·pa·thy
(em'pă-thē)Ability to sense intellectually and emotionally emotions, feelings, and reactions that another person is experiencing and it communicate.
Medical Dictionary for the Dental Professions © Farlex 2012
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