empathize JUST WRITTEN FOR YOU
/ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz/ · em·pa·thize
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- To feel empathy for another person. She tried to empathize with her friend's struggles.
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- To imagine oneself in another's position and understand their feelings. He empathized with the refugee's experience of fleeing their homeland.
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- To share or understand the feelings of another person. The therapist helped her patient to empathize with her own emotions.
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Did you know? The concept of empathy has been studied extensively in psychology and neuroscience, with researchers discovering that it is linked to increased activity in the brain's mirror neuron system.