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# empathy

«empathy» in Mova's school dictionary: **The ability to understand and share the feelings of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (empathy, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The ability to understand and share the feelings of another person, as if you were in their place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/empathy/#m1)

2) Feeling with someone, not just for them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/empathy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school and ethics lessons empathy is taught as a key skill: imagine how the other person feels before you act. In stories characters with empathy notice when someone is sad. Phrases: «show empathy», «have empathy for», «feel empathy», «put yourself in someone's shoes».

### examples

- Empathy means putting yourself in someone else's shoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/empathy/#x1)
- She showed empathy when her friend's dog died. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/empathy/#x2)
- Good doctors have empathy for their patients. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/empathy/#x3)
- Reading stories can help us build empathy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/empathy/#x4)
- He lacked empathy and laughed when Tom fell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/empathy/#x5)
- Our teacher asked us to show empathy to the new boy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/empathy/#x6)

### note

Uncountable. Adjective: empathetic or empathic; verb: empathise/empathize (with). Trap: sympathy means feeling sorry for someone; empathy means feeling what they feel. Both are kind.

### In the corpora

- [Empathy means imagining how someone else feels, "walking in their shoes".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «empathy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/empathy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.