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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
empathic

1909 [Titchener], from empathy + -ic. Related: Empathically. Treated as a coinage of Titchener's when it appeared in psychological writing; there are dozens of uses of empathic in printed material from the late 19th century but most of these appear to be errors for emphatic.

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empathic

a. 1 Showing or expressing empathy. 2 (context science fiction English) Of, pertaining to, or being an empath: of or having the capability of sensing the emotions of others.

WordNet
empathic

adj. showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states; "a sensitive and empathetic school counselor" [syn: empathetic]

Usage examples of "empathic".

Then they created the John Keats cybrid -- a full attempt at simulating an empathic organism with the body and DNA of a human being, and the Core-stored memories and personality of a cybrid.

After Oriana and I went off to college together, Agnes had come along and helped Mary Margaret raise Minky into an intelligent, gracious and empathic young woman.

The emotional overtones of the Church of Humanity Unchained were always like some deep, satisfying well of renewal and faith, one she could physically experience thanks to her empathic link to Nimitz.

And from the taste of his emotions through the empathic sense Honor shared with Nimitz, she knew the lieutenant in question felt very much like a Sphinxian chipmunk face to face with a hexapuma.

Planetoids, but the codebook advised against use of the empathic arts.

Shared Moment of almost five centuries ago must have propogated everywhere in the universe along the quantum fabric of the Void Which Binds, touching alien races and cultures so distant as to be unreachable by any technology of human travel or communication while adding the first self-aware human voice to the empathic conversation that had been going on between sentient and sensitive species for almost twelve billion years.

They'd overturned the ruling that automatically discounted people with psi capacities from working on the Planetoids, but the codebook advised against use of the empathic arts.

As she's telling what she sees as etiological truth, even though the monologue seems sincere and unaffected and at least a B+ on the overall AA-story lucidity-scale, faces in the hall are averted and heads clutched and postures uneasily shifted in empathetic distress at the look-what-happened-to-poor-me invitation implicit in the tale, the talk's tone of self-pity itself less offensive (even though plenty of these White Flaggers, Gately knows, had personal childhoods that made this girl's look like a day at Six Flags Over the Poconos) than the subcurrent of explanation, an appeal to exterior Cause that can slide, in the addictive mind, so insidiously into Excuse that any causal attribution is in Boston AA feared, shunned, punished by empathic distress.

As the images failed to arrive from the Avernus, as the mere pictures died in the shell-like auditoria, so the empathic link was forged ever more strongly.

Although the absolute mastery she could gain over a man or woman looked like telepathic work, she had no empathic ability, no psi capacities, and all attempts at empathic intervention with her failed.

Beyond them, their dragonets roused from a doze and chirped in empathic anxiety.

There is evidence that daydreamers concentrate better, are more empathic, less fearful, more lively and alert, may enjoy sex more, and generally are more fun to be around (Klinger, 1987).

Even if Deanna had not been empathic, she would have had no trouble detecting Lwaxana's arrival.

Not that his system was susceptible to such discomforts, but he fancied himself an empathic soul, and his time on Earth had taught him to feel cold as an intellectual concept, if not a physical one, and he might have wished to take shelter.

Hermeneutics focused on the signifieds (LH), which could only be grasped from within by empathic participation, and structuralism focused on the signifiers (RH), which can best be approached in a distancing stance of exterior study.