How to Use empath in a Sentence

empath

noun
  • That’s a pro, that’s an empath.
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Raising an empath child can be tricky.
    Laura Wheatman Hill, Parents, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Melvin—always the empath—looked ready to head home and cry.
    Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
  • These children are known as empaths.
    Laura Wheatman Hill, Parents, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The efficient yard-sale shopper is not an empath.
    Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
  • That said, the empath’s best friend is having stringent boundaries.
    Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • There’s this really subtle empath to her that understands the right route to go.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 4 Jan. 2022
  • My goal is to be kind and gracious and be an empath on stage and connect with people emotionally.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Your empath will thank you for giving them a loving, supportive village.
    Laura Wheatman Hill, Parents, 11 Apr. 2026
  • All the more reason for this eternally wide-eyed extra-terrestrial empath to take it.
    Andy Andersen, Vulture, 19 June 2026
  • Kerr will play Piet, tutor to a very troubled child and an extreme empath, with the confidence to back himself against the odds.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Here, learn how to recognize if your child is an empath and adopt strategies for supporting their uniquely empathetic traits.
    Laura Wheatman Hill, Parents, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Leon said equine therapy works because of how intuitive, almost empath-like, horses are to people’s emotions.
    Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Beyond the amusing jokes, Carlile’s point seems to be that Mitchell doesn’t need to be the world’s most flagrant empath to be one of its greatest healers.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Dumezweni makes Mensah believable as both a thoughtful leader and an overly anxious empath prone to panic attacks.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 12 May 2025
  • Berto is this 6-foot-4 man who plays this great balance between blue-collar workaholic detective and nurturing empath.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Later in the episode, Christina and Josh take the animal empath's advice by spending quality time with their pets at the beach.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 7 July 2023
  • For an empath and an extrovert like Jaswal, this was the perfect sweet spot - being in the spotlight and making real connections.
    Sonya Rehman, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
  • An empath will have intense empathy for others and lack the usual filters that protect us from absorbing the environment around us.
    Jessica Thompson, refinery29.com, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Instead, try to channel your empath child's compassionate and curious instincts.
    Laura Wheatman Hill, Parents, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Both HSPs and empaths benefit from setting boundaries and creating space for restorative alone time.
    Jessica Migala, Health, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Kiri, meanwhile, is a dreamer and an empath, and Weaver plays up that whimsicality and lack of artifice with wide grins, eager hugs, and sincere line readings.
    Vulture, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Here was Alejandro Mayorkas the empath, a child of refugees who draws on his family history to make a case to treat all immigrants humanely.
    Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Physical empaths Physical empaths feel other people's energy, symptoms, and pain as their own.
    Laura Wheatman Hill, Parents, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Emotional empaths Most empaths are emotional empaths.
    Laura Wheatman Hill, Parents, 11 Apr. 2026
  • As Neptune's home sign, Pisces — who are the dreamers, mystics and empaths of the zodiac — may have an especially challenging time navigating the space.
    Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 29 June 2024
  • Per Orloff, frequent emotional hangovers are most common among empaths, highly sensitive people, and those with social anxiety disorder.
    Anna Medaris, Vox, 21 July 2024
  • Meanwhile, identifying as an empath takes the sensitivity aspect of feeling an outsider’s emotions to another level — an empath absorbs it.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The same can be said for the Selma director, who diligently chronicles the author’s quest for unifying theories without warring with her own inner dramatist, empath, and/or creative sound-and-vision artist.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2024
  • To figure out what's going on, the HGTV star took him to see an animal empath—and ended up getting a heartbreaking assessment that her family is determined to remedy.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 7 July 2023

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