Sample Sentences forempathy (editor-reviewed)
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She lacks empathy and is very selfish.empathy = the understanding and sharing of others' feelings
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The teacher's empathy helped her connect with students facing difficulties at home.empathy = understanding and sharing others' feelings
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In fact, I thought it would teach them a thing or two about empathy, and friendship, and loyalty. (source)empathy = the ability or tendency to understand or share in others' feelings
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We had to have a commander with so much empathy that he would think like the buggers, understand them and anticipate them. So much compassion that he could win the love of his underlings... (source)empathy = understanding and sharing other's feelings
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I had an empathy link with Grover, so I hoped I would know if anything bad happened to him. (source)empathy = the ability or tendency to understand or share in others' feelings
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In my more rational moments, I tried to feel empathy for Gervais. (source)
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...the empathy they feel for the Living, so powerful it sometimes makes them weep. (source)empathy = the ability or tendency to understand or share in others' feelings
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I don't know how the enhancement opens an empathetic pathway into another human being.† (source)
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And I empathize.† (source)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.
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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)
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Raulito was having one of his crying fits and Jacqueline, who is empathic when it comes to tears, had joined in.† (source)
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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)
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Bailey nodded empathetically.† (source)
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Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life.† (source)
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Kids can be so mean, so heartless, so unempathetic.† (source)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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Whenever I think of the word "empathy," I think of a small boy named Huckleberry Finn contemplating his friend and runaway slave, Jim. (source)
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