Both Uses
empathy
in
It Happened to Nancy
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- Then I relented, nice, empathetic person that I am ...ummm.†
p. 42.5
- Kids can be so mean, so heartless, so unempathetic.†
p. 117.9 *unempathetic = without understanding or entering into another's feelingsstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unempathetic means not and reverses the meaning of empathetic. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Definitions:
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(1)
(empathy) the ability, tendency, or act of understanding and sharing another's emotional state
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)