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understanding and entering into another's feelings- She lacks empathy and is very selfish.
empathy = understanding and entering into another's feelings
- I didn't need an empathy link with the plants to know how they felt about it.Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters
- We had to have a commander with so much empathy that he would think like the buggers, understand them and anticipate them.Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
- ...the empathy they feel for the Living, so powerful it sometimes makes them weep.Nicole Krauss -- The History of Love
- ...try your best to be authentic, faithful, wise, empathetic, and sincere—P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Betrayed
- Whenever I think of the word "empathy," I think of a small boy named Huckleberry Finn contemplating his friend and runaway slave, Jim.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
- In fact, I thought it would teach them a thing or two about empathy, and friendship, and loyalty.R.J. Palacio -- Wonder
- Anyone who could move from anger to empathy as effortlessly as she had was a treasure, and he was lucky to have found her.Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian
- In my more rational moments, I tried to feel empathy for Gervais.Sarah Dessen -- Lock and Key
- I had an empathy link with Grover, so I hoped I would know if anything bad happened to him.Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian
- Grover and I could sort of read each other's emotions because of this empathy link Grover had made between us.Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth
- Last summer, Grover had created an empathy link between us.Rick Riordan -- The Titan's Curse
- Empathetic people know exactly what another person is going through.
- The purpose of this group is to build empathy, positive leadership, and connection among the students and within the community at large.Jaycee Lee Dugard -- A Stolen Life
- "He was a good man," she said, dullness with an obligatory injection of empathy.Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
- I see a cynic who hasn't been able to completely stamp out his own sensitivity, his own empathy.Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
- The Aluit were empathic and it was our fear and greed which killed them-that and our unbreachable alienness.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- Travis saw empathy and concern etched on their faces.Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
- If by force you make a creature live and work like a beast, you must think of him as a beast, else empathy would drive you mad.John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
- Remote sympathy is fine, but intimate empathy directly conflicts with the Sheridans' manner of living.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
empathy = understanding and entering into another's feelings
empathy = understanding of another's feelings
empathy = understanding and entering into another's feelings
empathetic = understanding and entering into another's feelings
empathy = understanding and entering into another's feelings
empathy = understanding and entering into another's feelings
empathy = understanding and entering into another's feelings
empathy = understanding and entering into another's feelings
empathy = understanding and entering into another's feelings
empathy = understanding and entering into another's feelings
empathy = understanding and entering into another's feelings
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