Both Uses of
empathy
in
Nineteen Minutes
- Maybe empathy, like any unused muscle, simply atrophied.†
Chpt 2 *empathy = the ability or tendency to understand or share in others' feelings
- The truth was, no matter what King Wah had said, no matter how clear the explanation of PTSD, no matter if the jury completely empathized with Peter-Jordan had forgotten one salient point: they would always feel sorrier for the victims.†
Chpt 2empathized = 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.
Definition:
the ability, tendency, or act of understanding and sharing another's emotional state