Empathy



GRE Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• v. 心意相通, ( 感情等) 融为一体
• ［英］ v. 心意相通, ( 感情等) 融为一体 ( the mental ability of sharing other people's ideas and feelings)
• ［记］ em+pathy ( 感情) -> 进入感情
• ［同］ 同根词: antipathy ( 反感) ; apathetic ( 冷漠的)

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: Greek empatheia, literally, passion, from empathēs emotional, from em- + pathos feelings, emotion — more at pathos
• Date: 1850
• 1. the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it
• 2. the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also the capacity for this

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