empathy

IPA: ˈɛmpʌθi

Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person.
The capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.
(parapsychology, science fiction) A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.
(obsolete slang) MDMA.

Examples of "empathy" in Sentences

This is the basis of empathy and conscience.
The functional architecture of human empathy.
She has the power of telekinesis and empathy.
The article mixes up empathy with the ability to it.
Social evaluation and the empathy altruism hypothesis.
Please explain the effect of Nazism on the blunting of empathy.
A motivation for the research is the ability to simulate empathy.
It is impossible to forecast the effect of empathy on the future.
Empathy is not an emotion or a feeling but a capacity that is innately present.
Pity originally means feeling for others, particularly feelings of sadness or sorrow, and was once used in a comparable sense to the more modern words 'sympathy' and 'empathy'.