- empathic
- adjective Date: 1909 empathetic • empathically adverb
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
empathic
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empathic — [em path′ik] adj. EMPATHETIC empathically adv. * * * em·path·ic (ĕm păthʹĭk) adj. Of, relating to, or characterized by empathy. * * * … Universalium
empathic — 1909, from EMPATHY (Cf. empathy) + IC (Cf. ic). Related: Empathically … Etymology dictionary
empathic — [em path′ik] adj. EMPATHETIC empathically adv … English World dictionary
empathic — em•path•ic [[t]ɛmˈpæθ ɪk[/t]] also em•pa•thet•ic [[t]ˌɛm pəˈθɛt ɪk[/t]] adj. cvb pertaining to or showing empathy: an empathic response to another s suffering[/ex] • Etymology: 1930–35 em•path′i•cal•ly, em pa•thet′i•cal•ly, adv … From formal English to slang
empathic — empathy ► NOUN ▪ the ability to empathize. DERIVATIVES empathetic adjective empathic adjective. ORIGIN Greek empatheia, from pathos feeling … English terms dictionary
Empathic anger — is an emotion, a form of empathic distress [Abstract: Empathy and justice motivation, Martin L. Hoffman [http://www.springerlink.com/content/w126637624m00103/] ] . Empathic anger is felt in a situation where someone (else) is being hurt by… … Wikipedia
Empathic design — is an approach to design where researchers or developers try to get closer to the lives and experiences of (putative, potential or future) end users, and to apply what they learn together with end users in the design process. The goal of empathic … Wikipedia
Empathic distress — As empathy is about setting yourself in another person s position, the empathic distress is the distress caused by feeling the perceived pain of the other. It seems that this distress can be transformed into the following feelings: empathic anger … Wikipedia
empathic — adjective Showing or expressing empathy. Syn: empathetic Ant: apathetic … Wiktionary
empathic — Relating to or marked by empathy. * * * em·path·ic em path ik, im adj involving, characterized by, or based on empathy em·path·i·cal·ly i k(ə )lē adv … Medical dictionary
