Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ability to identify with or understand another's situation or feelings: synonym: pity.
- noun The attribution of one's own feelings to an object.
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- noun the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person
- noun capacity to understand another person's
point of view or the result of such understanding - noun parapsychology, science fiction a
paranormal ability topsychically read another person's emotions
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- noun understanding and entering into another's feelings
Etymologies
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The term empathy first appeared in the work of a German psychologist, Theodore Lipps, toward the end of the nineteenth century.
Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011
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The term empathy first appeared in the work of a German psychologist, Theodore Lipps, toward the end of the nineteenth century.
Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011
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It is legitimate to be afraid that empathy is code for results-oriented jurisprudence, but empathy does not have to be such a codeword.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ambiguity, Empathy, and the Role of Judicial Power: 2009
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GILLESPIE: Well, it was also consistent with President Obama's use of the phrase -- use of the term empathy, and it implied -- it played into a notion that this is going to be a judge who's going to have personal feelings play a role in judgment.
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You know, I think this is a good conversation for us to be having, and for us to think about what President Obama meant when he used the term empathy, what it means for a judge to have empathy.
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For many conservatives, empathy is code for caring too much about, and being too soft on, woman and minorities.
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"I do not think it correct to use the term 'empathy' as the ability to gauge someone's feelings from a picture," said Dr. Kent Holtorf, founder of Holtorf Medical Group, which has offices in Foster City, Calif., Torrance, Calif. and St. Joseph, Mo.
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His confession reveals that while in the past the Living Constitution's acolytes sought to achieve the amorphous goals of "social justice, brotherhood, and human dignity," a President Obama will feed the beast with what's left of individual rights and limited government, all in the name of "empathy" - a code word for something much darker: sacrifice of true constitutionalism to the needs of society's perceived victims
The Two Malcontents 2008
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His confession reveals that while in the past the Living Constitution's acolytes sought to achieve the amorphous goals of "social justice, brotherhood, and human dignity," a President Obama will feed the beast with what's left of individual rights and limited government, all in the name of "empathy" -- a code word for something much darker: sacrifice of true constitutionalism to the needs of society's perceived victims
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I believe his new founded interest in them was what they call empathy?
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