empathy

Meaning

Noun

• Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person.
• Capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.
• A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.
• MDMA.

Origin

• A twentieth-century borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐμπάθεια (formed from ἐν + πάθος), to translate . The modern word in Greek εμπάθεια has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone.