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