as in compassionate
having or showing the capacity for sharing the feelings of another
gave an empathic nod as I recounted my repeated efforts to land a decent-paying job in a tough economy
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Recent Examples of empathic
So even if their market research is off, their final product still ends up working because it’s grounded in an empathic understanding of the customer.
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Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
According to a report from Catalyst, employees with highly empathic senior leaders report significantly higher engagement.
—Brent Gleeson, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
One psychological explanation for why empathic people experience fatigue and even burnout is that empathy involves a kind of mirroring of other people’s mental life, a mirroring that can be physically unpleasant.
—Colin Marshall, The Conversation, 22 May 2025
Across species, this region has been shown to play a role in evaluating social rewards, empathic responses and decisions involving others.
—Tobias Kalenscher, Scientific American, 13 June 2025
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Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
According to a report from Catalyst, employees with highly empathic senior leaders report significantly higher engagement.
—Brent Gleeson, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
One psychological explanation for why empathic people experience fatigue and even burnout is that empathy involves a kind of mirroring of other people’s mental life, a mirroring that can be physically unpleasant.
—Colin Marshall, The Conversation, 22 May 2025
Across species, this region has been shown to play a role in evaluating social rewards, empathic responses and decisions involving others.
—Tobias Kalenscher, Scientific American, 13 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for empathic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for empathic
Adjective
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Though a small sample, their reactions were notably compassionate towards transgender people and supportive of the doctors who provided their care.—
Time,
Time,
7 Aug. 2025
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Being more compassionate and respectful to the needs of your squad and family, instead of just asserting your wants, adds a new dimension to your connection with them.—
Lisa Stardust,
Refinery29,
5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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During World War II, America was also fighting Germany and Italy, but during the war, far fewer German and Italian non-citizen immigrants were interned than Japanese and those who were interned had been carefully vetted by the FBI as being sympathetic to their former homelands.—
Paul L. Newman,
New York Daily News,
6 Aug. 2025
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There's no telling if the judge who immediately granted the NYT such broad access, Ona Wang, will be sympathetic to OpenAI's arguments at this stage of the battle.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Empathic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empathic. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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