Empathetic Definition

ĕmpə-thĕtĭk
adjective
Empathic.
American Heritage
Of or characterized by empathy.
Webster's New World
The definition of empathetic is having the ability to understand someone else's feelings or emotions.
An example of empathetic is someone who understands what it is like to lose someone and who feels sympathy and understanding for a friend who just suffered a death in their family.
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Showing empathy for others, and recognizing their feelings etc; empathic.

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Origin of Empathetic

  • Derived from empathic, with an -et added before the suffix to sound more similar to sympathetic

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Empathetic Sentence Examples

  • Camp nurses must be empathetic and often need to console unhappy or ill campers.

  • What it is, is empathetic, not analytic or academic.

  • Maguire has made Peter Parker an extremely empathetic character.

  • So he mixes a steely determination and focus in a very empathetic and collaborative way, " she says.

  • But they are so empathetic that they can branch out into other skills, such as anthropology, and do them as well.

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