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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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Meanwhile the Prime Minister, no orator but a politician with an actor's empathy for public mood, acts on his instincts.
Do they visit in empathy, or is it something deep within the deepest well of their own ego that sends them on their mission?
Not only do you have no empathy or understanding for your fellow human beings, you are a racist, homophobic, xenophobic bigot.
Yet I am not advocating a crass rationalism in which reverence, empathy and love have no place.
The therapist may offer the patient a combination of empathy and reality testing.
The experienced safari guides seem to have an innate empathy with the nature all around, and all at once you feel at ease.

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