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empathy

Definition

  • noun: the feeling that you understand and share another person's experiences and emotions
  • noun: the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it

Examples

  • His months spent researching prison life gave him greater 'empathy' towards/for convicts.

  • He felt great 'empathy' with/for/toward the poor.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) one way out. To escape, she'd have to use self-awareness, imagination, manipulation, sexuality, empathy, and she did. Now, if that isn't true Al, what the fuck is? So my only function was to be someone she could use to escape? (..)
    2014 Ex Machina