Synonyms of empathy

empathy

noun

as in compassion

the feeling that you understand and share another person's experiences and emotions

He felt great empathy toward the poor.

Related Words

• compassion
• sympathy
• kindness
• understanding
• pity
• generosity
• tenderness
• mercy
• leniency
• clemency
• forbearance
• humanitarianism
• mercifulness
• goodwill
• lenience
• charity
• gentleness
• philanthropy
• grace
• lenity
• goodness
• quarter
• altruism
• softness
• benevolence
• meekness
• affection
• magnanimity
• commiseration
• humaneness
• kindliness
• nobility
• care
• favor
• devotion
• mildness
• love
• worship
• niceness

Dissimilar Words

• ruthlessness
• revenge
• vengeance
• retribution
• cruelty
• retaliation
• violence
• virulence
• punishment
• hatred
• vindictiveness
• brutality
• savagery
• sadism
• discipline
• venom
• vitriol
• reprisal
• mercilessness
• barbarity
• viciousness
• pitilessness
• spite
• malice
• hostility
• loathing
• uncharitableness
• atrocity
• hate
• truculence
• savageness
• scolding
• jealousy
• requital
• resentment
• abhorrence
• antagonism
• hard-heartedness
• animosity
• malevolence
• meanness
• chastisement
• castigation
• antipathy
• wantonness
• spleen
• enmity
• detestation
• malignancy
• bitterness
• maliciousness
• abomination
• malignity
• bile
• nastiness
• jaundice
• gall
• grudge
• execration
• pique
• rancor
• hardness
• spitefulness
• harshness
• roughness
• coarseness
• cattiness
• hatefulness
• invidiousness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of empathy

Understanding the scope of human suffering and hopelessness in our world stirs a strong internal conflict between empathy and pragmatism. — Torrey Snow, Baltimore Sun, 23 Sep. 2026

But now without openers and the backing of Irish band Beoga, who pulled out of the tour out of solidarity with Macklemore and empathy toward Palestinians, Sheeran’s solitariness was magnified. — Brendan Menapace, Billboard, 20 Sep. 2026

This growing self-awareness soon translates into empathy for others and respecting others' points of view. — Lindsay C. Gibson, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2026

That’s a process that can help clarify thoughts, but knowing that no one was behind the dialogue, that the empathy was a technique and not a presence, left me with a sense of being poignantly unheard. — Steven Barrie-Anthony, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2026