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empathy

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of empathy

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

He felt great empathy toward the poor.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of empathy

pity, sympathy, understanding

charity, clemency, forbearance, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercifulness, mercy, quarter

humanitarianism, philanthropy

commiseration, favor, grace

benevolence, care, compassion, gentleness, goodness, goodwill, humaneness, kindliness, kindness, meekness, mildness, niceness, softness, tenderness

altruism, generosity, magnanimity, nobility

affection, devotion, love, worship

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of empathy

hard-heartedness, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, uncharitableness

reprisal, requital, retaliation, retribution, revenge, vengeance

venom, vindictiveness, virulence, vitriol

atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, sadism, savageness, savagery, truculence, viciousness, violence, wantonness

castigation, chastisement, discipline, punishment, scolding

abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, hate, hatred, loathing

cattiness, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness, spleen

animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bitterness, enmity, gall, grudge, hostility, jealousy, pique, resentment

bile, jaundice, rancor

hatefulness, invidiousness

coarseness, hardness, harshness, roughness

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