empathy

Definitions


[ˈɛmpəθi], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the ability to understand and share the feelings of another
(e.g: he has a total lack of empathy for anybody)


Phrases:

Origin:
early 20th century: from Greek empatheia (from em- ‘in’ + pathos ‘feeling’) translating German Einfühlung




definition by Oxford Dictionaries