Synonyms of empathy

empathy

noun

as in sympathy

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

He felt great empathy toward the poor.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sympathy
• pity
• compassion
• kindness
• understanding
• 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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• 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

Examples of empathy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But the examples below are here now and aim to inject what’s sure to be a contentious election season with a little joy, introspection, empathy and curiosity. —Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2024

Programmed for gentleness and empathy, hums occupy a growing number of positions in the workforce, especially in the service sector. —Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024

Serotonin helps regulate mood, emotion, and social behavior — so it’s believed the resulting surge can create feelings of emotional closeness, well-being, and empathy. —Meghana Keshavan and Olivia Goldhill, STAT, 9 Aug. 2024

Researchers have found that areas of the brain involved in empathy are more active when people see, for example, a member of their own college getting hurt versus someone from a rival college. —Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2024