empathy

Betekenis (Engels)

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

Sinonieme

sympathy

compassion

understanding

affectivity

emotion

pathos

passion

affection

pity

feeling

sensibility

kindness

commiseration

comfort

consolation

humanity

sensitivity

solace

warmth

heart

❤️

response

feelings

will

condolence

empathetic

thoughtfulness

considerateness

concern

intuition

impression

human nature

Vertalings

empathie

empatia

empatía

Empathie

empatia

Einfühlungsvermögen

empatia

Mitgefühl

ενσυναίσθηση

empathie

empati

compassion

Einfühlung

sympathie

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈɛmpəθi/

Etimologie (Engels)

Verwante met Grieks: εμπάθεια

In summary

A twentieth-century borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐμπάθεια (empátheia, literally “passion”) (formed from ἐν (en, “in, at”) + πάθος (páthos, “feeling”)), equivalent to em- + -pathy, coined by Edward Bradford Titchener in 1909 to translate German Einfühlung. The modern word in Greek εμπάθεια (empátheia) has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone.