as in compassion
the feeling that you understand and share another person's experiences and emotions
He felt great empathy toward the poor.
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Recent Examples of empathy
With fewer people having children, empathy toward parents—and patience for noisy, curious kids—has waned.
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Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Good teams get the job done with no empathy and little fuss, but a run of five victories in six fixtures in all competitions proved misleading.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
It's given me a lot more empathy too for Jordan and being a single dad.
—Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
It’s given me a lot more empathy too for Jordan and being a single dad.
—Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 30 Oct. 2025
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Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Good teams get the job done with no empathy and little fuss, but a run of five victories in six fixtures in all competitions proved misleading.
—George Caulkin, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
It's given me a lot more empathy too for Jordan and being a single dad.
—Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
It’s given me a lot more empathy too for Jordan and being a single dad.
—Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for empathy
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Crucially, the tragedies of the film don’t come from a sense of the filmmaker’s cynicism, but from compassion.—
Kambole Campbell,
IndieWire,
3 Nov. 2025
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In such cases, solidarity and compassion themselves might seem like luxuries next to the all-conquering, primally selfish urge to save your own skin.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
31 Oct. 2025
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But a lot of Democratic voters don't feel much sympathy for this argument.—
Ashley Lopez,
NPR,
3 Nov. 2025
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One rendition of the story even displays a little sympathy for the devil, as Jennings shares.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2025
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But Kwei, in the first display of mercy or kindness that Dek has ever seen, refuses to slay his own brother.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
4 Nov. 2025
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Dick Cheney was a great and good man who taught his children and grandchildren to love our country, and to live lives of courage, honor, love, kindness, and fly fishing.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Nov. 2025
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In a similar vein, Timnit Gebru, a computer scientist writing during her time working at Google, warned of the dangers of large language models acting as stochastic parrots, which repeat language patterns without understanding, and in doing so replicate the biases embedded in their training data.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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From sourcing materials domestically to designing heaters that require no electricity, the company’s practices reflect an understanding that environmental responsibility often begins at home, in how things are built, maintained, and valued.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
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They shouldn’t be protected out of pity, but out of value.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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At these intersections, pity and fear collide.—
Brian Hamilton,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Empathy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empathy. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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