empathy

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: em=pa=thy

OXFORD DICTIONARY

empathy, n. Psychol. the power of identifying oneself mentally with (and so fully comprehending) a person or object of contemplation.

Derivative

empathetic adj. empathetically adv. empathic adj. empathically adv. empathist n.

Etymology

transl. G Einf{uuml}hlung f. ein in + F{uuml}hlung feeling, after Gk empatheia: see SYMPATHY

THESAURUS

empathy

accent, accentuation, accord, accordance, affinity, agape, agreement, allergy, amity, anaphylaxis, appreciation, attention, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, caring, caritas, cement of friendship, charity, chord, communion, community, community of interests, compassion, compatibility, comprehension, concern, concord, concordance, congeniality, considerateness, correspondence, delicacy, echo, emphasis, esprit, esprit de corps, exquisiteness, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, fineness, force, frictionlessness, good vibes, good vibrations, happy family, harmony, hyperesthesia, hyperpathia, hypersensitivity, identification, identity, insistence, involvement, irritability, kinship, like-mindedness, love, mutuality, nervousness, oneness, oversensibility, oversensitiveness, overtenderness, passibility, pathos, peace, perceptiveness, perceptivity, photophobia, prickliness, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocity, relating, response, responsiveness, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sensitization, sharing, solidarity, soreness, stress, supersensitivity, sympathetic chord, sympathetic response, sympathy, symphony, tact, tactfulness, team spirit, tenderness, tetchiness, thin skin, ticklishness, touchiness, understanding, union, unison, unity, vibes, vibrations, warmth, weight

ROGET THESAURUS

empathy

Concord

N concord, accord, harmony, symphony, homologue, agreement, sympathy, empathy, response, union, unison, unity, bonds of harmony, peace, unanimity, league, happy family, rapprochement, reunion, amity, alliance, entente cordiale, good understanding, conciliation, peacemaker, intercessor, mediator, concordant, congenial, agreeing, in accord, harmonious, united, cemented, banded together, allied, friendly, fraternal, conciliatory, at one with, of one mind, at peace, in still water, tranquil, with one voice, in concert with, hand in hand, on one's side, commune periculum concordiam parit, melody concord, melody, rhythm, measure, rhyme, pitch, timbre, intonation, tone, scale, gamut, diapason, diatonic chromatic scale, enharmonic scale, key, clef, chords, modulation, temperament, syncope, syncopation, preparation, suspension, resolution, staff, stave, line, space, brace, bar, rest, appoggiato, appoggiatura, acciaccatura, note, musical note, notes of a scale, sharp, flat, natural, high note, low note, interval, semitone, second, third, fourth, diatessaron, breve, semibreve, minim, crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, demisemiquaver, hemidemisemiquaver, sustained note, drone, burden, tonic, key note, leading note, fundamental note, supertonic, mediant, dominant, submediant, subdominant, octave, tetrachord, major key, minor key, major scale, minor scale, major mode, minor mode, passage, phrase, concord, harmony, emmeleia, unison, unisonance, chime, homophony, euphony, euphonism, tonality, consonance, consent, part, harmony, harmonics, thorough-bass, fundamental-bass, counterpoint, faburden, piece of music, composer, harmonist, contrapuntist (musician), harmonious, harmonical, in concord, in tune, in concert, unisonant, concentual, symphonizing, isotonic, homophonous, assonant, ariose, consonant, measured, rhythmical, diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic, melodious, musical, melic, tuneful, tunable, sweet, dulcet, canorous, mellow, mellifluous, soft, clear, clear as a bell, silvery, euphonious, euphonic, euphonical, symphonious, enchanting fine-toned, full-toned, silver-toned, harmoniously, in harmony, as one, the hidden soul of harmony.