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Word formation: empathy

empathy
noun

- the ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in their situation

Empathy is the ability to share another person's feelings and emotions as if they were your own.
   Having begun my life in a children's home I have great empathy with the little ones.
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Collins Dictionary

empathise (verb)

    UK written The great ones last, are there to pick up the pieces, understand, empathise.
    UK written Other women empathise with cellulite and bad-hair days!
Collins dictionary


empathetic (adjective) ...Clinton's skills as an empathetic listener.

(Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary)

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