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empathy
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Not Without My Daughter
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- Part of me empathized with Moody.†
empathized = understood or shared in another's feelingsstandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- Helen empathized, but she was simply powerless to help.†
- "I told her she is not being fair," Moody said to me, his voice now filled with gentleness and empathy.†
*empathy = the ability or tendency to understand or share in others' feelings
- I saw nothing but deep empathy.†
- Both of them had complete freedom to move about the country and to leave Iran whenever they wished, but they empathized with my plight and wanted to help.†
empathized = understood or shared in another's feelingsstandard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- I bore the empathy of motherhood in my heart.†
empathy = the ability or tendency to understand or share in others' feelings
- There was genuine empathy in her eyes and in her demeanor, but there was also the cultivated wariness of the Iranian woman.†
- The lady pasdar grew pensive and empathetic.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(empathy) the ability, tendency, or act of understanding and sharing another's emotional state
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)