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Empathy
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(Noun) The ability to identify with another's feelings and experiences and emotionally put yourself in the place of another.Usage: Her empathy shines through in the way she listens to other people and how understanding she is of their feelings.
(Noun) to identify with anothers feelings by extrapolating from ones own experiences
Usage: having risen from the ranks the general felt great empathy towards his troops
(Noun) to be able to feel for anothers situation (put yourself in anothers shoes, emotionally) either by experience or imagination, but experience of the situation not necessary.
Usage: she felt empathy for the starving children although she had never been more than hungry.
(Noun) The ability to understand and to share the feelings of others.
Usage: The young boy felt great empathy towards the young girl who had recently lost her favorite stuffed animal.
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