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Empathy [em-puh-thee] noun

1. The intelectual identification with or vicarious experi-
encing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another.
ενσυναίσθηση

2. The imaginative ascribing to an object, as a natural ob-
ject or work of art, feelings or attitudes present in one-
self: By means of empathy, a great painting becomes a mirror of
the self.
1903, from German Einfühlung (from ein "in" + Fühlung
"feeling"), coined 1858 by German philosopher Rudolf Lotze
(1817-1881) as a translation of Greek empatheia "passion,
state of emotion," from en "in" + pathos "feeling".

(On-line Dictionary of Etymology © 2001-2013 Douglas Harper)

"Quality that arouses pity or sorrow," 1660s, from Greek pathos
"suffering, feeling, emotion, calamity," literaly "what befals one,"
related to paskhein "to suffer," and penthos "grief, sorrow;"

(Dictionary.Com)

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