Synonyms of empathy

empathy

noun

as in sympathy

the feeling that you understand and share another person's experiences and emotions

He felt great empathy toward the poor.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sympathy
• pity
• compassion
• kindness
• understanding
• generosity
• tenderness
• mercy
• leniency
• clemency
• forbearance
• humanitarianism
• mercifulness
• goodwill
• lenience
• charity
• gentleness
• philanthropy
• grace
• lenity
• goodness
• quarter
• altruism
• softness
• benevolence
• meekness
• affection
• magnanimity
• commiseration
• humaneness
• kindliness
• nobility
• care
• favor
• devotion
• mildness
• love
• worship
• niceness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ruthlessness
• revenge
• vengeance
• retribution
• cruelty
• retaliation
• violence
• virulence
• punishment
• hatred
• vindictiveness
• brutality
• savagery
• sadism
• discipline
• venom
• vitriol
• reprisal
• mercilessness
• barbarity
• viciousness
• pitilessness
• spite
• malice
• hostility
• loathing
• uncharitableness
• atrocity
• hate
• truculence
• savageness
• scolding
• jealousy
• requital
• resentment
• abhorrence
• antagonism
• hard-heartedness
• animosity
• malevolence
• meanness
• chastisement
• castigation
• antipathy
• wantonness
• spleen
• enmity
• detestation
• malignancy
• bitterness
• maliciousness
• abomination
• malignity
• bile
• nastiness
• jaundice
• gall
• grudge
• execration
• pique
• rancor
• hardness
• spitefulness
• harshness
• roughness
• coarseness
• cattiness
• hatefulness
• invidiousness

Examples of empathy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This film brings attention to the important issue of veterans’ mental health through a touching friendship and unexpected moments of levity, seamlessly edited with great empathy by Ali Greer: My Dead Friend Zoe. —Matthew Carey, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2024

Once more, a grotesque, monstrous vampire graced the silver screen, though despite this appearance Nosferatu the Vampyre has a somber, humanistic empathy for its vampire. —James Grebey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024

But therapists have found that couples who clearly express their appreciation and empathy for one another have longer lasting unions. —Aditi Shrikant, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2024

However, neglecting people-centric values such as compassion, discipline and empathy can have severe consequences and risk creating a toxic work environment characterized by chronic stress, lack of work-life balance and unrealistic expectations. —Raul Handa, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024