Usually means: Understanding and sharing others' feelings.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word EMPATHY:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. empathy: Merriam-Webster
  2. empathy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. empathy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. empathy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. empathy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Empathy, empathy: Wordnik
  7. empathy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. empathy: Wiktionary
  9. empathy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. empathy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. empathy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. empathy: Dictionary.com
  13. empathy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. empathy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Empathy (Mandalay album), Empathy (album), Empathy (disambiguation), Empathy (software), Empathy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. empathy: Rhymezone
  17. empathy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. empathy: FreeDictionary.org
  19. empathy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. empathy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. empathy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. empathy: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. EMPATHY: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. empathy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. empathy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. empathy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Empathy: Glossary of Lymphoma Terms
  6. empathy: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  3. Empathy: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  4. empathy: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Empathy, empathy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (empathy)

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

Similar:
pseudo-empathy, telempathy, empathist, empath, sensitiveness, metaemotion, emotioning, emotional intelligence, compassion, empathy map, more...

Opposite:
apathy, indifference

Types:
cognitive empathy, affective empathy, somatic empathy, empathic concern, empathic accuracy, empathic distress, empathic joy, more...

Phrases:
with empathy, Double empathy problem, NCT 2018 Empathy, Empathy gap, Empathy Map, more...

Adjectives:
accurate, more, little, greater, emotional, genuine, deep, mutual, human, cultural, true

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Similar:
pseudo-empathy, telempathy, empathist, empath, sensitiveness, metaemotion, emotioning, emotional intelligence, compassion, empathy map, more...

Opposite:
apathy, indifference

Types:
cognitive empathy, affective empathy, somatic empathy, empathic concern, empathic accuracy, empathic distress, empathic joy, more...

Phrases:
with empathy, Double empathy problem, NCT 2018 Empathy, Empathy gap, Empathy Map, Against Empathy, Pain empathy, Hot-cold empathy gap, Empathy quotient, Empathy and Prostitution, lack of empathy, more...

Adjectives:
accurate, more, little, greater, emotional, genuine, deep, mutual, human, cultural, true

Colors:
    soft pink,     lavender,     sky blue,     mint green,     peach, more...



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