empathy

About 3.66 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person.

   She had a lot of empathy for her neighbor; she knew what it was like to lose a parent too.

2. noun The capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.
3. noun A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.
4. noun MDMA.

Similar words

empathetic compassion sympathetic sympathy compassionate commiseration caring feeling liking sensitivity

Often followed by

and for with is in as to or that

Word family

empathies