empathy

Etymology
A twentieth-century borrowing from (formed from  + ),  to translate. The modern word in 🇨🇬 has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone.

Noun

 * 1)  with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person.
 * 2) The capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.
 * 3)  A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.
 * 4)  MDMA.
 * 1) The capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.
 * 2)  A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.
 * 3)  MDMA.

Usage notes
Used similarly to, interchangeably in looser usage. In stricter usage, empathy is stronger and more intimate, meaning that the subject understands and shares an emotion with the object—as in “I feel your pain”—while is weaker and more distant—concern, but not shared emotion: “I care for you” or "I feel sorry for you."

Translations

 * Arabic: تَعَاطُف
 * Belarusian:, суперажыва́нне, эмпа́тыя
 * Bulgarian: съприча́стие,, емпа́тия
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 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: empatio
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 * Georgian: ემპათია
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 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, तदनुभूति
 * Hungarian:, , beleérző képesség
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 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 공감(共感)
 * Macedonian: емпатија
 * Malayalam: സഹാനുഭൂതി
 * Maori: ngākau aroha
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 * Nynorsk: empati
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 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: co-fhaireachdainn, iochd
 * Slovak: empatia, vcítenie
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 * Ukrainian: співчуття́, емпа́тія, співпережива́ння
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 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 공감-능력
 * Malayalam: സഹാനുഭൂതി
 * Maori: ngākau aroha
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: co-fhaireachdainn, iochd
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: cộng cảm