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To be able to feel what others feel.

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What part of speech is the word sympathy?

The word 'empathy' is the English translation by Titchener in 1909 of the German word 'Einfühlung' 'Einfühlung' is a concept borrowed from aesthetics meaning: 'to project yourself into what you observe'


What is the connotation of empathy?

Empathy is when you are able to feel for someone because you have experienced or are going through the same thing. Denotation is the direct, dictionary meaning of a word, what the word literally means. The denotation of empathy is what I just said, feeling for someone because you know through past experience what it feels like to be going through what they are. The connotation of empathy is used more often than the denotation of empathy simply because that's how words work in the English language, the meaning of the word according to the context (connotation) is used more often than a words literal meaning (denotation) The connotation of empathy can vary depending on the context that the word is used in, but most often it is used with the word with. With suggests that you are feeling with the person. Sometimes empathy is used with the word for, but this suggests that you are feeling at the person, rather than with them. When the word for is used rather than with, empathy's connotation changes.


What part of speech is the word empathy?

Empathy is a noun.


What is the Latin root of empathy?

The lating root word for empathy is pathos


What does pathic mean in the word telepathic?

It comes from "pathos" meaning "feeling". The same root found in telepathy is also found in empathy, sympathy, and homeopathy.


What is pakikiramay in English?

The word "pakikiramay" is in Tagalog or Filipino language (national language of the Philippines). In English language it's meaning is "commiseration", "condolence", "sympathy", "empathy".


What is the word when you relate of how the person feels?

Empathy


Example of a sentence using a word empathy?

I had a strong sense of empathy and I could comfort the heartbroken children.


What are words containing the root word -path-?

Empathy and Sympathy are two of the many words that contain the root word -path.


What word means a symapthetic awareness?

The word that means a "sympathetic awareness" is Empathy.


Is there an Irish word for zone of empathy?

Crios ionbhá.


Meaning of the word emphatize?

This seems to be a (common?) misspelling of the word emphathize. Many instances of the use of "emphatize" were found. This might lead you to think it is an actual word, but it seems that it is just a common word that is misspelled. To emphatize is to have empathy a stronger emotion of sympathy with someone else. You would feel how they feel possibly because you had a similar experience happen to you in your life. To feel or experience empathy: empathized with the striking miners. empa·thizer n.