EGAVE

empathic

About 0.92 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Showing or expressing empathy.
    Be fair to people: even those who manage to be empathic can't be telepathic. They're only human — they can't read your mind.
  2. adjective Of, pertaining to, or being an empath, having an extraordinarily high capability of sensing the emotions of others. Doing so through psychological talent or training.
    Be fair to people: not everyone can be empathic, like Cathy is. Her gift is rare.
  3. adjective Doing so through psychological talent or training.
    Be fair to people: not everyone can be empathic, like Cathy is. Her gift is rare.
  4. adjective Doing so through psychicness, telepathy, etc: that is, through either supernatural powers or neurotechnological powers.
    I didn't know he was empathic until I realized that he had evidently read my mind with his cyborg implant.

Similar words

sympathetic empathetic empathetical empathogenic emotic emotive sympathetick emotionable sympathetical humane

Often followed by

understanding and listening response responses concern ability accuracy communication

Word family

empathically

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