/ ˈempəθi; NAmE / noun
[ U ] empathy (with sb/sth) | empathy (for sb/sth) | empathy (between A and B) the ability to understand another person's feelings, experience, etc. :
the writer's imaginative empathy with his subject
empathy for other people's situations
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WORD ORIGIN
early 20th cent.: from Greek empatheia (from em- in + pathos feeling) translating German Einfühlung .