EMPATHY Synonyms
There are 9 hypernyms of the word empathy. (close relations)
Best Alternative Words for EMPATHY
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| care | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something • judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger • an anxious feeling • a cause for feeling concern • attention and management implying responsibility for safety • activity involved in maintaining something in good working order verb • feel concern or interest • provide care for • to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something • be in charge of, act on, or dispose of • be concerned with | ||||||||
| compassion | nounn | |||||||
noun • a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering • the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it | ||||||||
| concern | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • something that interests you because it is important or affects you • an anxious feeling • a feeling of sympathy for someone or something • something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness • a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it verb • be relevant to • be on the mind of | ||||||||
| connection | nounn | |||||||
noun • a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it) • the state of being connected • an instrumentality that connects • (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship) • the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination • a connecting shape • a supplier (especially of narcotics) • shifting from one form of transportation to another • the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication) | ||||||||
| kindness | nounn | |||||||
noun • the quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic • tendency to be kind and forgiving • a kind act | ||||||||
| sensitivity | nounn | |||||||
noun • (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation • the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences • sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) • susceptibility to a pathogen • the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | ||||||||
| sympathy | nounn | |||||||
noun • an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion • sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish) • a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other | ||||||||
| understanding | nounn | |||||||
noun • the cognitive condition of someone who understands • the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises • an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion • the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination adjective satellite • characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy | ||||||||
| warmth | nounn | |||||||
noun • the sensation caused by heat energy • a warmhearted feeling • the quality of having a moderate degree of heat • the trait of being intensely emotional • a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | ||||||||
| ecstasy | nounn | |||||||
noun • a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion • a state of elated bliss • street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine | ||||||||
