All 4 Uses

empathy
in
Marley & Me
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He looked up at me with those big empathetic eyes that I swore could almost talk.†
p. 193.5 *
I thought about the swallowed objects and purloined paychecks and sweet moments of canine-human empathy.†
p. 256.6

empathy = the ability or tendency to understand or share in others' feelings
There was more to him than that, however, and I described his intuition and empathy, his gentleness with children, his pure heart.†
p. 279.5
Animal lovers are a special breed of human, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky.†
p. 281.9

Definitions:

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