empathy
- Noun. the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person.
- Noun. capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.
- Noun. (parapsychology, science fiction) a paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.
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