Empathy

Definitions

1. Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person.
   countable, uncountable
2. The capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.
   countable, uncountable
3. A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.
   countable, uncountable
4. MDMA.
   countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“She had a lot of empathy for her neighbor; she knew what it was like⟳ to lose⟳ a parent too.”

“Like⟳ your body's in the room but you're not really there / Like⟳ you have⟳ empathy inside but you don't really care / Like⟳ you're fresh outta love⟳ but it's been in the air / Am I past repair⟳?”

“While Musk said he believes in empathy and that “you should care about other people,” he also thinks it’s destroying society.”

CEFR level