All 3 Uses

empathy
in
Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline
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So I am learning to pretend, to smile and nod, to display empathy I do not feel.†
p. 112.9 *

empathy = the ability or tendency to understand or share in others' feelings
To display an empathy you don't actually feel.†
p. 170.9
We light candles on the twenty-foot tree to the right of the altar, all the fair-haired Lutheran children and parents and grandparents singing with songbooks open, the reverend preaching a sermon as elemental as a story in a child's picture book, a lesson about charity and empathy.†
p. 195.4

Definitions:

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