All 4 Uses

empathy
in
BoneMan's Daughters
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He wasn't given to emotion, being the more calculating type, but a strange surge of empathy tugged at him.†
Chpt 1 *

empathy = the ability or tendency to understand or share in others' feelings
He sat there in the back of the Humvee, bouncing slightly as the vehicle sped over the sandy road, gripped by the sudden realization that he wasn't so much empathetic for the snapshot he'd assigned to this man's life but rather was trying to ignore a tinge of guilt.†
Chpt 1
But Bethany had a hard time empathizing with her mother's incessant talk of being deserted by her man, particularly when she replaced him with other men, which she had no difficulty doing.†
Chpt 2

empathizing = understanding or sharing 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.
They would use empathetic pain to break him.†
Chpt 5

Definitions:

(1) (empathy)
the ability, tendency, or act of understanding and sharing another's emotional state
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)