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EMPATHY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does empathy mean?

• EMPATHY (noun)
The noun EMPATHY has 1 sense:

1. understanding and entering into another's feelings

Familiarity information: EMPATHY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• EMPATHY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Understanding and entering into another's feelings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("empathy" is a kind of...):

fellow feeling; sympathy (sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish))

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