the ability to understand another person's feelings, experience, etc. empathy (with somebody/something) the writer's imaginative empathy with his subject empathy (for somebody/something) empathy for other people's situations empathy (between A and B) The empathy between the two women was obvious.
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NAmE//ˌɛmpəˈθɛt̮ɪk//
(also empathic NAmE//ɛmˈpæθɪk//
) adjectiveSee empathy in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: empathy