On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Empathy. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as sympathy and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Empathy in a sentence
Empathy meaning
- Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person.
- The capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.
- A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.
Synonyms of Empathy
Using Empathy
- The main meaning on this page is: Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person. | The capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding. | A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.
- Useful related words include: sympathy, fellow feeling.
- In the example corpus, empathy often appears in combinations such as: empathy and, of empathy, and empathy.
Context around Empathy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Empathy
- In this selection, "empathy" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, requiring, human, cognitive, deficit, increases and towards stand out and add context to how "empathy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about cognitive empathy versus affective and and as empathy increases our. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "empathy" sits close to words such as accomplish, adopting and ar, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with empathy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Anger, determination, empathy, and many other relatable emotions are expertly portrayed by Bassett. (13 words)
Abby inherited from her father his empathy and a tenacity that defines her work as Utah’s first lady. (19 words)
A morning meeting can consist of students greeting one another with kindness and responding to one another with empathy. (19 words)
And when I see people watching the horrible tragedy that is happening here as if it were a Super Bowl of victimhood, in which you support one team and really don’t care about the other, empathy becomes very, very selective. (41 words)
She described the Trump administration of providing ‘chaos, division and a total and utter lack of empathy’ towards the movement, before describing how children were now seeing what happens ‘when we stop requiring empathy of one another’. (37 words)
It is the basic and fundamental human trait of empathy, the ability to vicariously experience how another is feeling, that makes this possible, and it is the principle of empathy by which we should live our lives. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Maybe this sounds a little cheesy, but I think at the base of my book is really a call for empathy and a call for greater and more rigorous practice of empathy and compassion.
She described the Trump administration of providing ‘chaos, division and a total and utter lack of empathy’ towards the movement, before describing how children were now seeing what happens ‘when we stop requiring empathy of one another’.
Westphal testified the empathy deficit of a psychopath and the empathy deficit of some people with autism spectrum disorder are different.
In his 2016 book Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion, Paul Bloom examines the many ways in which empathy is far from an unquestionable moral good.
Another program Tarr has led is Roots of Empathy, in which elementary school children learn about empathy for others – in part by interacting regularly with an infant brought to their class.
Michaela claimed that producers went ‘back and forth between the line of knowing what normal human empathy is and not knowing what empathy is at all’.
Reading this police chief’s empathy for this young white man highlights the awfulness — the plain awfulness — of the persistent refusal to extend this empathy to young black people,” Ifill added.
Unsurprisingly, the same conclusion about cognitive empathy versus affective empathy has been shown for narcissists in another study (Wai & Tiliopoulos, 2012).
Both cognitive studies and neuropsychological experiments have provided evidence for this theory: as humans increase our oneness with others our empathy increases, and as empathy increases our inclination to act altruistically increases.
It is the basic and fundamental human trait of empathy, the ability to vicariously experience how another is feeling, that makes this possible, and it is the principle of empathy by which we should live our lives.
Therefore, altruistic actions emanating from empathy and empathy itself are caused by making others' interests our own, and the satisfaction of their desires becomes our own, not just theirs.
Abby inherited from her father his empathy and a tenacity that defines her work as Utah’s first lady.
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V), NPD is a mental illness and is associated with a 'need for admiration, lack of empathy and pervasive pattern of grandiosity'.
Along the way, he tangles with the empathy-free Gabriel (Esai Morales), who apparently is on intimate terms with the AI, as well as with Gabriel’s blond henchwoman Paris (Pom Klementieff).
A morning meeting can consist of students greeting one another with kindness and responding to one another with empathy.
And when I see people watching the horrible tragedy that is happening here as if it were a Super Bowl of victimhood, in which you support one team and really don’t care about the other, empathy becomes very, very selective.
And you can preface your requests for one-on-one networking discussions by wishing people happy holidays and expressing empathy for a busy season.
Anger, determination, empathy, and many other relatable emotions are expertly portrayed by Bassett.
A relative had commented on the empathy levels of the staff, and how they went at their relative's own pace.
As Morocco grapples with the aftermath of this rare and catastrophic earthquake, the world watches with empathy and solidarity.
Common combinations with empathy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- empathy and 54×
- of empathy 32×
- and empathy 28×
- empathy for 19×
- the empathy 12×
- empathy is 10×
- with empathy 9×
- empathy to 8×
- empathy in 6×
- empathy the 4×