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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An empathy offensive to ensure material support for all need not even be kind, at least not in the conventional way we tend to think of kindness.
Drafting a Law Office Memorandum | CUNY School of LawCUNY School of Law 2023
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In the wake of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder last week and grassroots outrage at the healthcare industry, the company is undertaking an empathy offensive. “We know the health care system isn’t perfect,” says an internal company memo sent from UnitedHealthcare’s Executive Council today, which I obtained. “There is more work we can do and must do,” the message continues.
UnitedHealth's New "I Feel Your Pain" PR Blitz Ken Klippenstein 2024
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The speech was the latest in Biden’s empathy offensive—a series of remarks and public appearances that talk about the pain at the heart of the nationwide protests, while calling for unity to confront systemic racism.
Joe Biden’s Empathy Offensive Charlotte Alter 2020
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