When people take advantage of your better nature to exploit you. Usually happens with liberal white women when mothering instincts are redirected towards immigrants and people that will one day harm them.
"Showing pictures of a tearful immigrant to promote replacing your identity and culture is a form of empathy extortion."
by harry analstein August 13, 2022
Get the Empathy Extortionmug. When compassion for a group, individual, or ideology becomes so unconditional that it blinds you to danger, exploitation, or harm.
She kept forgiving her abusive partner out of suicidal empathy, until she had nothing left of herself.
by Aternias September 6, 2025
Get the suicidal empathymug. Jane has a lot of empathy for others. I farted the other day and she said, “Aah I feel so much better”
by Zinger Hoff May 7, 2022
Get the Empathymug. **faaaaaarrrrt** “aaaaah. I feel so relieved.”
“I feel it too man. I feel it too. My empathy for you is so strong.”
“I feel it too man. I feel it too. My empathy for you is so strong.”
by CracklyBarrel July 20, 2024
Get the Empathymug. The biological principle of commutative support across life forms, where organisms help, protect, or share resources with others to increase collective survival and evolution.
Trees use Evolutionary Empathy by sending nutrients through their root networks to support struggling neighbors.
by Lilac.in.a.Sack October 6, 2025
Get the Evolutionary Empathymug. Something that a lot of people lack these days. The ability to imagine yourself in someone else’s shoes, and feel what others feel. You’d typically be very caring and for sure an overthinker.
by ~thatonegirl~ December 3, 2020
Get the Empathymug.