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Etymology
A twentieth-century borrowing of Ancient Greek á¼Î¼Ïάθεια (empatheia), literally âpassionâ (formed from εν- en-, âin, atâ + ÏÎ¬Î¸Î¿Ï pathos âfeelingâ), coined by w:Rudolf Lotze|Rudolf Lotze to translate German Einfühlung. The modern Greek word εμÏάθεια has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone.
Noun
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empathy
- 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
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trans-top|intellectual identification
Finnish: empatia
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