All 5 Uses

empathy
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Seabiscuit, by Hillenbrand
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Habitually putting himself in other people's shoes, he was in his private life charming and engaging, generous and genuinely empathetic.†
Chpt 1.1 *
Like him, she was deeply empathic.†
Chpt 1.1

empathic = having the ability or tendency to understand or share in others' feelings
His emotions were liquid; his anger was a wild rage, his pleasure jubilation, his humor biting, his sorrow and empathy a bottomless abyss.†
Chpt 1.4

empathy = the ability or tendency to understand or share in others' feelings
His natural empathy and experience with the horses of the bullring circuit had given him insight into the minds of ailing, nervous horses.†
Chpt 1.4
Woolf felt a stab of empathy.†
Chpt 2.19

Definitions:

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