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  • By having her write Demosthenes, it meant he also had some empathy, just as Locke also could play on others fears.  (source)
    empathy = understanding and sharing of others' feelings
  • Last summer, Grover had created an empathy link between us.  (source)
    empathy = the ability or tendency to understand or share in others' feelings
  • In my more rational moments, I tried to feel empathy for Gervais.  (source)
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  • Anyone who could move from anger to empathy as effortlessly as she had was a treasure, and he was lucky to have found her.  (source)
    empathy = the ability or tendency to understand or share in others' feelings
  • And I think you're confusing being empathetic with being a pushover!†  (source)
  • Believe me, I empathize with your personal incentive to catch this man.†  (source)
    empathize = to understand or share in another's feelings
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
  • A strange thing that has always occurred in classes occurs again, when the unruly and wild students in the back rows have always empathized with him and been his favorites, while the more sheepish and obedient students in the front rows have always been terrorized by him and are because of this objects of his contempt, even though in the end the sheep have passed and his unruly friends in the back rows have not.†  (source)
    empathized = understood or shared in another's feelings
  • It was a psychology trick called empathic listening.†  (source)
    empathic = having the ability or tendency to understand or share in others' feelings
  • In other words, it I smile and you see me and smile in response — even a microsmile that takes no more than several milliseconds — it's not just you imitating or empathizing with me.†  (source)
    empathizing = understanding or sharing in another's feelings
  • Bailey nodded empathetically.†  (source)
    empathetically = in a manner that is sensitive to others' feelings
  • Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life.†  (source)
  • Another townsperson in Veracruz, Baltasar Breniz Avila, empathizes with migrants.†  (source)
    empathizes = understands or shares in another's feelings
  • Kids can be so mean, so heartless, so unempathetic.†  (source)
    unempathetic = without understanding or entering into another's feelings
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unempathetic means not and reverses the meaning of empathetic. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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