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Sympathetic understanding
Answer for the clue "Sympathetic understanding ", 7 letters:
empathy
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Word definitions for empathy in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other being's frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another's position. There are many definitions for empathy which encompass a broad ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. understanding and entering into another's feelings
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1908, modeled on German Einfühlung (from ein "in" + Fühlung "feeling"), which was coined 1858 by German philosopher Rudolf Lotze (1817-1881) as a translation of Greek empatheia "passion, state of emotion," from assimilated form of en "in" (see en- (2)) ...
Usage examples of empathy.
For one brief, shining moment, Amaryllis felt an unexpected sense of mutual empathy flash between them.
Ostherhaut is clairvoyant and has a large measure of empathy, like you, but refuses to admit it.
Apollonius knew, resided not in his lycanthropy or his immortality, but in his empathy.
All in all, I loved Lucius Claudius dearly, but he was a creature of his patrician upbringing, trained from birth never to feel empathy for a slave, and he simply could not equate the fate of a man like Motho with that of a man like Lucullus.
He can reflect and discover how he was probably offering solutions at a time when she was needing empathy and nurturing.
It was, rather, a machine psychometry, literally an empathy: a feeling and more than a feeling of oneness with functioning devices.
Winthrop was only beginning to understand, picked up the emotional sequence as a sort of Empathy track surrounding the product and when the tape was played through the telethesia projector, the result was analogous to a posthypnotic suggestion to purchase the product.
Hence no empathy, no curiosity, none of the conversations I was able to fantasize on my own and which had no place in Britten Street.
Often the struggle was confined not just to Meath and Leinster, for others entered in because of empathy and alliances, even greed or unmentioned political hopes.
Lucy Quinones grimaced in empathy for Bonifay, but what could anyone say?
Moore has a long and sordid history of posting screeds that make anyone with the smallest capacity for empathy immediately cringe.
Respond calmly to an aggressor with empathy or mild, unprovocative comments or with no response at all.
Being married to a medical student also gives me more empathy with doctors than I might have otherwise.
Putney brings an unusual degree of realistic empathy to his account of the training of Marine war dogs and their employment in the recapture of Guam, 1944.
Jesse stared back at the child, experiencing a wave of empathy and sympathy unlike anything she had ever before experienced in life.