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What does empathy mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word empathy? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person.
  2. (parapsychology, science fiction) A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.
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There's no shortage of government officials who think they're being laudably tough while they smother human empathy.
Do they visit in empathy, or is it something deep within the deepest well of their own ego that sends them on their mission?
The therapist may offer the patient a combination of empathy and reality testing.
I feel a real empathy for people who are sad, and so I relate to characters who are unhappy and dark.
In his short fiction Man-Eating Cats, he describes an adulterous affair not in terms of mere love but as total and complete empathy.
Yet I am not advocating a crass rationalism in which reverence, empathy and love have no place.

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