Meaning of empathy in English

empathy

/ˈem.pə.θi/ us

/ˈem.pə.θi/

the ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person's situation

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Part of it may not be empathybut simply be precaution and an insurance for the event of personal misfortune.
Some of the settlers had empathy with the dolphins to a high degreebut Ross's own powers of contact were relatively feeble.

(Definition of empathy from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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empathy

noun [ U ]

/ˈem·pə·θi/

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the ability to share someone else’s feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in that person’s situation:

He loves children and has a certain empathy with them.

(Definition of empathy from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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As noted abovenegative feelings play important roles in impulse controlempathyand conscience.

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Lower levels of empathy may contribute to conflict in social interactions and thereby heighten levels of negative emotions experienced by some children.

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The developmental literature points to at least 6 levels of empathy emerging in successioneach expanding and adding to the repertoire of empathic potential.

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The major focus of the 24- and 36-month visits is on parenting and toddler self-regulation (behavior problemsempathycomplianceand internalization of parental rules).

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Examples include empathyflexibilitysensitivity and courageprecise qualities varying according to the individual.

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Developing representations of possibilities for prosocial actions are also important in developing outcomes for empathy and guilt.

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Moreoverpeer play forces children to reason about others' feelingspossibly serving as a unique mechanism for empathy development.

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In the present study we assess the third componentempathyby children's self-repor ts of affective response to social stimuli.

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Perspective-taking can also initiate a preverbal process (one hears about a familiar victim's misfortune and imagines his facial expressionwhich triggers empathy).

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Many respondents showed tremendous empathy for ex-combatants and emphasised that they would not normally commit atrocities.

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And while she addresses them with empathyshe cannot give them voicefor they have never learned to speak for themselves.

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It may be that the addition of sympathyin the primitive sense of emotional contagionto perspective taking is sufficient to constitute empathy.

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It confers on the various perspectives on empathy only a specious nominal unity.

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Goals for future research include determining the ways in which empathy is emotion-specific and dependent on overt or covert perception.

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Howeverconceptual and empirical advances depend upon identification of different forms of empathyas well as the reasons and motives for different forms of expression.

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同情同感，共鳴…

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