Definition of empathetic
: involving, characterized by, or based on empathy
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an empathetic social worker who soon realized that the single mother was at her breaking point
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Rick comes off as even more cruel and sadistic when contrasted with what ends up being a surprisingly empathetic look at Negan.
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Hanson, who is not scheduled to be at the conference, says on his website that his company’s mission is to develop empathetic, smart living machines that will learn from human interaction and establish trusted relationships with people.
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Clinicians with mental health challenges make more mistakes, take more sick days, are less engaged in their work, and are less empathetic.
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And the reconciliation is the ability to be more truthful, to be more compassionate, to be more empathetic.
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To collaborate with empowered, thoughtful, high-spirited, incredibly intelligent, empathetic women who have the highest values and ideals is incredibly rewarding.
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By the end, however, Barry establishes itself as a uniquely empathetic shot of weirdness that hits its target more often than not.
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The downside of having a forum of this size is that not everyone’s there to lend an empathetic ear.
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The hyper-real intensity of the image, with its wide-angle lenses and unnerving distortions of depth and perspective, provides an empathetic window into the mind of a woman suddenly forced to question her own reality.
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1912
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