empathy
English
/ˈɛmpəθi/
noun
Definitions
- Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person.
- Capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.
- (parapsychology) A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.
- (obsolete) MDMA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐμπάθεια (passion).
Origin
Ancient Greek
ἐμπάθεια
Gloss
passion
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -gen English
- -o- English
- empathic English
- empathically English
- empathogen English
- empathogenic English
- empathyless English
- nonempathic English
- overempathic English
- unempathic English
- Empathie German
- empathogen German
- empathie French
- empathique French
- ἐμπάθεια Ancient Greek
- empati Norwegian Bokmål
- empatisk Norwegian Bokmål
- empati Norwegian Nynorsk
- empatisk Norwegian Nynorsk
- empatie Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- אמפתיה Hebrew (modern)