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gave an empathic nod as I recounted my repeated efforts to land a decent-paying job in a tough economy
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Often a wise, warm, empathic onscreen presence, the 58-year-old Ms. Janney as LaVona was caustic and cruel, and almost upstaged by the pet bird that sat on her shoulder, pecking at her, for one extended, wickedly funny scene.
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In the first year of her study, the boys proved to be nimble in their relationships: attentive, authentic, direct, empathic.
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But then why bludgeon Freud, not to mention market economists, academics and behavioral scientists, with bad-faith charges that are beneath Robinson’s great, empathic mind?
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Acknowledge tragedies with a simple, empathic message.
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The The 15:17 to Paris never becomes poetry like Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Ang Lee’s beautifully empathic modern war film that critics, bored with Iraq War narratives, castigated.
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Linda was an empathic listener and was a great friend to many.
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The more empathic the parent, the researchers found, the more likely that person was to be experiencing chronic low-grade inflammation.
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The more empathic the parent, the researchers found, the more likely that person was to be experiencing chronic low-grade inflammation.
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First Known Use of empathic
1909
empathic Synonyms
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Antonyms
callous, cold-blooded, coldhearted, hard, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, obdurate, unfeeling, unsympathetic;
Near Antonyms
inconsiderate, insensitive, thoughtless, unthinking;
aloof, cool, indifferent, uncaring, uninterested;
unaffectionate, unfriendly, unloving;
merciless, pitiless, ruthless;
bigoted, narrow-minded, small-minded;
brutal, grim, harsh, oppressive, rough, severe, stern, tough, unrelenting;
abusive, acrimonious, hateful, hostile, ill-natured, ill-tempered, malevolent, malicious, mean, rancorous, spiteful, surly, unkind, virulent;
Related Words
feeling, perceptive, sensitive;
considerate, gentle, softhearted, tender, tenderhearted, warm, warmhearted;
benevolent, benignant, bighearted, charitable, kind, kindhearted, kindly, magnanimous;
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