noun empathy The ability to understand and share the feelings of another. 2
uncountable noun empathy Empathy is the ability to share another person's feelings and emotions as if they were your own. 1
noun empathy the power of understanding and imaginatively entering into another person's feelings 1
noun empathy the attribution to an object, such as a work of art, of one's own emotional or intellectual feelings about it 1
noun empathy the projection of one's own personality into the personality of another in order to understand the person better; ability to share in another's emotions, thoughts, or feelings 0
noun empathy the projection of one's own personality into an object, with the attribution to the object of one's own emotions, responses, etc. 0
noun empathy the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person. 0
noun empathy capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding. 0
noun empathy (parapsychology, science fiction) a paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions. 0
