What Does The Word "Empathy" Mean?

The word empathy is defined as a feeling of concern and understanding which one person expresses for the situation that another person is in or the feelings which another person has towards someone else. It is also defined as an emotional feeling of a person which he or she expresses freely when he or she understands or identifies a work of art.

Empathy is also a word which is used to describe the imaginative projection into the feelings of another person or a sense of total identification with another person's situations, conditions and thoughts. It is defined as the action of understanding, being conscious and aware of, being sensitive to and undergoing the same feelings, thoughts and experiences that another person has faced in the past or is facing in the present.

It is usually expressed without explicitly articulating these feelings, thoughts and experiences. The verb form of the noun empathy is to empathise and it is followed by the word with (as in, to empathise with someone else).

I felt empathy before..for a bird..he looked at me with pained eyes..it just hurt inside.he was raised in that cage..its been years..and everytime i saw him, i felt hurt, sad and angry...i wanted to set him free..but i couldnt..he even appeared in my dreams..and soon after i understood the meaning of his visit..., me feeling bad for seeing him in a cage, and me having a healed lovebird at home..so the next morning, my lovebird was gone...its confusing..but i understood.

Empathy is the understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives.

Empathy means to show that you care and are sorry for whatever situation that person may be going through.

Sympathy