Look up: Empathy

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   Empathy
   The ability to understand the experience or emotional state of another person or animal. Often used to refer to an apparently psychic ability to experience another person's sensations, pain or emotions. Cf. clairsentience, intuition.
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   Empathy
   The ability to understand the experience or emotional state of another person or animal. Often used to refer to an apparently psychic ability to experience another person's sensations, pain or emotions. Cf. clairsentience, intuition.
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   Empathy
   Empathy along with genuineness and unconditional positive regard is one of the central pillars of humanistic psychotherapy. Empathy is where the counsellor (or facilitator) appreciates where his/her client is coming from. They do this verbally and non-verbally. Or through the use of encouraging noises and body language!
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   empathy
   [n] - understanding and entering into another`s feelings
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   Empathy
   identifying with another: a character in a story, or an historical figure; the ability to see situations from the other's point of view. Literally 'feeling with' or 'feeling in'.
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   empathy
   putting oneself into the psychological frame of reference of another,so that the other person`s thinking,feeling and acting are understood and,to some extent,predictable Category: Man and society • putting oneself into the psychological frame of reference of another, so that the other person`s thinking, feeling and acting are understood and, to some extent, predictable. Category: Me...
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   empathy
   An individual's objective and insightful awareness of the feelings and behaviour of another person. It should be distinguished from sympathy, which is usually nonobjective and noncritical. It includes caring, which is the demonstration of an awareness of and a concern for the good of others. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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   empathy
   noun understanding and entering into another`s feelings
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   Empathy
   `Empathy` is commonly defined as one's ability to recognize, perceive and feel directly the emotion of another. Since the states of mind, beliefs, and desires of others are intertwined with their emotions, one with empathy for another may often be able to more effectively define another's mode of thought and mood. Empathy is often characterized as the ability to `put oneself into another's shoes`, or to in some way experience the outlook or emoti...
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    empathy
    (em´pә-the) intellectual and emotional awareness and understanding of another person's thoughts, feelings, and behavior, even those that are distressing and disturbing. Empathy emphasizes understanding; sympathy emphasizes sharing of another person's feelings and experiences.
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    empathy
    the ability to imagine oneself in another`s place and understand the other`s feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. It is a term coined in the early ... [4 related articles]
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    empathy
    empathy, empathetic Identification with and understanding of another's feelings, situation, and motives; attribution of one's own feelings to an object. Empathy was apparently borrowed in 1904 from Greek empátheia, 'passion' (em-, 'in' plus páthos, 'feeling'). It was a translation of the German Einfühlung (ein; 'in' plus Fühlung, 'feeling'), a word which was int...
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    Empathy
    Understanding and feeling from the point of view of the other person, believed in interactionism to lie at the heart of development of self and society.
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    Empathy
    A feeling of compassion and tenderness upon viewing a victim's plight.
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    Empathy
    (Gr. en + pathein, to suffer) The projection by the mind into an object of the subjective feeling of bodily posture and attitude which result from the tendency of the body to conform to the spatial organization of the object (e.g. the tendency to imitate the outstretched hands of a statue). The phenomenon is of particular significance for aestheti...
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