empathy

«empathy» in Mova's school dictionary: The ability to understand and share the feelings of… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (empathy, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) The ability to understand and share the feelings of another person, as if you were in their place. tree →

2) Feeling with someone, not just for them. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school and ethics lessons empathy is taught as a key skill: imagine how the other person feels before you act. In stories characters with empathy notice when someone is sad. Phrases: «show empathy», «have empathy for», «feel empathy», «put yourself in someone's shoes».

examples

• Empathy means putting yourself in someone else's shoes. tree →
• She showed empathy when her friend's dog died. tree →
• Good doctors have empathy for their patients. tree →
• Reading stories can help us build empathy. tree →
• He lacked empathy and laughed when Tom fell. tree →
• Our teacher asked us to show empathy to the new boy. tree →

note

Uncountable. Adjective: empathetic or empathic; verb: empathise/empathize (with). Trap: sympathy means feeling sorry for someone; empathy means feeling what they feel. Both are kind.

In the corpora

• Empathy means imagining how someone else feels, "walking in their shoes".

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «empathy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.