empathizeverb [ I ]
UK usually empathise uk/ˈem.pə.θaɪz/us/ˈem.pə.θaɪz/to be able to understand how someone else feels:
It's very easy to empathize with the characters in her books.
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Empathy and sensitivity
- attuned
- commune
- communion
- emotional intelligence
- empathetic
- identify
- identify with sb
- project
- put
- put yourself in sb's place/position/shoes idiom
- rapport
- relate
- relate to sb
- self-discovery
- sensitive
- sensitivity
- sympathetic
- sympathize
- understand
- understanding
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