Empathize
/ˈempəθaɪz/verb
To understand and share another person's feelings or experiences.
As a teacher, it's important to empathize with your students.
Often appears as...
- empathize with someone
- empathize with feelings
verb
To feel what another person is feeling because you have experienced something similar.
As a former refugee, he can empathize with people who have had to flee their country.
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- empathize with experience
- empathize from experience
verb
To understand and share another person's feelings or experiences.
As a teacher, it's important to empathize with your students.
Often appears as...
- empathize with someone
- empathize with feelings
verb
To feel what another person is feeling because you have experienced something similar.
As a former refugee, he can empathize with people who have had to flee their country.
Often appears as...
- empathize with experience
- empathize from experience
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Pro Tip 1/3Shared Emotion
Empathize involves a deep emotional understanding, not just a surface reaction.
She empathized with his loss, recalling the pain of her own.
Pro Tip 2/3Active Effort
To empathize requires actively imagining how someone else feels.
He tried to empathize with her situation by recalling his similar experiences.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Sympathy
Unlike sympathy, empathize doesn't imply feeling sorry for someone, but feeling with them.
I don't just sympathize with you; I truly empathize.
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Which country does the...
I don't mean to be rude, but you know what a psychopath is. A psychopath is a person who, unfortunately for him or her, lacks the ability to really empathize with other human beings. When they look around, they don't see other human beings with deep, rich, three-dimensional personal lives
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Andrew Bastawrous: Get...
so that people understand what we're examining and what that means to them. So here, for example, we use our sight sim application, once your vision has been measured, to show carers and teachers what the visual world is like for that person, so they can empathize with them and help them.
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Can a divided America...
What would it look like to build that type of empathy? Actually, I think Empathy is a very, very hot topic in psychology, and it's a very popular word on the left in particular. Empathy is a good thing, and empathy for the preferred classes of victims. So it's important to empathize
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The Aztecs: From Empire...
and jim found that the roles of the gods would change over time based on what was going on for instance before the fall of the aztec rain gods were kind of above human affairs so this idea of of rain gods coming to the aid of people because they empathize with their circumstances
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Why is yawning...
and partake in their emotion, a crucial ability for social animals like us. Recently, neuroscientists have found that a subset of mirror neurons allows us to empathize with others' feelings at a deeper level. Scientists discovered this empathetic response to yawning
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The importance of...
you understand the refugee experience empathize with refugees and support them I embraced those opportunities I still I believe storytelling putting a human face to numbers and building the human connection is one of the best ways to
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Daniel Goleman: Why...
is that our default wiring is to help. That is to say, if we attend to the other person, we automatically empathize, we automatically feel with them. There are these newly identified neurons, mirror neurons,
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Connected, but alone? PIPE...
when that woman was experiencing that pretend empathy, I was thinking, "That robot can't empathize. It doesn't face death. It doesn't know life." And as that woman took comfort in her robot companion,
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Bob Thurman: We can be...
and empathize, and enhance the basic human ability of empathizing, and realizing that you are the other being, somehow by that opening, you can see the deeper nature of life. And you can,
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Chris Milk: How virtual...
you feel her humanity in a deeper way. You empathize with her in a deeper way. And I think that we can change minds with this machine. And we've already started to try to change a few.
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Which country does the...
I don't mean to be rude, but you know what a psychopath is. A psychopath is a person who, unfortunately for him or her, lacks the ability to really empathize with other human beings. When they look around, they don't see other human beings with deep, rich, three-dimensional personal lives
Video examples
Andrew Bastawrous: Get...
so that people understand what we're examining and what that means to them. So here, for example, we use our sight sim application, once your vision has been measured, to show carers and teachers what the visual world is like for that person, so they can empathize with them and help them.
Video examples
Can a divided America...
What would it look like to build that type of empathy? Actually, I think Empathy is a very, very hot topic in psychology, and it's a very popular word on the left in particular. Empathy is a good thing, and empathy for the preferred classes of victims. So it's important to empathize
Video examples
The Aztecs: From Empire...
and jim found that the roles of the gods would change over time based on what was going on for instance before the fall of the aztec rain gods were kind of above human affairs so this idea of of rain gods coming to the aid of people because they empathize with their circumstances
Video examples
Why is yawning...
and partake in their emotion, a crucial ability for social animals like us. Recently, neuroscientists have found that a subset of mirror neurons allows us to empathize with others' feelings at a deeper level. Scientists discovered this empathetic response to yawning
Video examples
The importance of...
you understand the refugee experience empathize with refugees and support them I embraced those opportunities I still I believe storytelling putting a human face to numbers and building the human connection is one of the best ways to
Video examples
Daniel Goleman: Why...
is that our default wiring is to help. That is to say, if we attend to the other person, we automatically empathize, we automatically feel with them. There are these newly identified neurons, mirror neurons,
Video examples
Connected, but alone? PIPE...
when that woman was experiencing that pretend empathy, I was thinking, "That robot can't empathize. It doesn't face death. It doesn't know life." And as that woman took comfort in her robot companion,
Video examples
Bob Thurman: We can be...
and empathize, and enhance the basic human ability of empathizing, and realizing that you are the other being, somehow by that opening, you can see the deeper nature of life. And you can,
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Chris Milk: How virtual...
you feel her humanity in a deeper way. You empathize with her in a deeper way. And I think that we can change minds with this machine. And we've already started to try to change a few.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.
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Roger Waters
British Musician
I've only ever written about one thing in my life, which is the fact that we, as human beings, have a responsibility to one another and that it's important that we empathize with others, that we organize society so that we all become happier and we all get the life we really want.
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Emma Hayes
English Businesswoman
I empathize with players. In our culture it is all about strategies and interventions to help the individual based on their individual needs. It is not just about supplements or putting painkillers in your mouth. You have to educate yourself about that.
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Viola Davis
American Actress
Those things that we probably are ashamed of as human beings, certain things that no one would ever talk about - as actors, when we transform into a character, we empathize with those moments.
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Ryan Reynolds
Canadian Actor
It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.
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Ginni Rometty
American Businesswoman
You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming.
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Y. G. Mahendran
Even when I have a vintage play, I draw in elements from current scenarios, so that modern audiences can empathize with the characters.
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George Pelecanos
American Author
Reading opens your mind and helps you understand and empathize with people who are unlike you and outside your breadth of experience.
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Ross Lynch
American Actor
You've got to empathize with every character you play.
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Spike Jonze
American Director
We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.
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Roger Waters
British Musician
I've only ever written about one thing in my life, which is the fact that we, as human beings, have a responsibility to one another and that it's important that we empathize with others, that we organize society so that we all become happier and we all get the life we really want.
Quote examples
Emma Hayes
English Businesswoman
I empathize with players. In our culture it is all about strategies and interventions to help the individual based on their individual needs. It is not just about supplements or putting painkillers in your mouth. You have to educate yourself about that.
Quote examples
Viola Davis
American Actress
Those things that we probably are ashamed of as human beings, certain things that no one would ever talk about - as actors, when we transform into a character, we empathize with those moments.
Quote examples
Ryan Reynolds
Canadian Actor
It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.
Quote examples
Ginni Rometty
American Businesswoman
You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming.
Quote examples
Y. G. Mahendran
Even when I have a vintage play, I draw in elements from current scenarios, so that modern audiences can empathize with the characters.
Quote examples
George Pelecanos
American Author
Reading opens your mind and helps you understand and empathize with people who are unlike you and outside your breadth of experience.
Quote examples
Ross Lynch
American Actor
You've got to empathize with every character you play.
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Spike Jonze
American Director
We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.
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