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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Definitions empathy noun  the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding Etymology: A twentieth-century borrowing of Ancient Greek á (empatheia), literally "passion" (formed from - en-, "in, at" + pathos "feeling"), coined by w:Rudolf Lotze, Rudolf Lotze to translate German Einfíhlung. The modern Greek word has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone.      Full Definition of empathy  Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish     Show 51015202550 results per page. Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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