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empathy

Empathy is like sympathy but suggests an even closer relationship.
Sympathetic people try to be understanding and compassionate, but people who have empathy feel that they are inside someone else's mind and emotional being, feel that they are the other person for a while. They live with and share the other's joy, sorrow, pain, fear, love. Readers are often empathetic toward (identify with") one or more fictional characters.
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Empath

An individual with a keen, supernatural ability to sense the psychic energy field or aura that surround other beings.
Empaths are often deeply spiritual and intuitive by nature.
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cold empathy

Feeling cold just by watching someone else shiver. Physiological response to seeing another person who is cold.
A recent study showed that people's body temperature actually dropped when they saw images of an actor dipping their hand into ice cold water. They called it cold empathy.
by yes juanito yes January 17, 2015
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empantisocialite

one who is empathetic, caring and geniune, and extremely irritated with the mindless, close-minded and negative ways of society;
one who naturally falls outside the group of general society due to their own opposing qualities such as: antisocialite characteristics, open-mindedness, empathy, humanitarianism, mindfulness, etc.
an empantisocialite is a humanitarian who is extremely irritated with mindless society and mindless social norms;
an empantisocialite is both empathetic and sociopathic/dissocial at the same time;
one who is all the following at the same time: empathetic, antisocial, dissocial, caring, concerned, antisocialitic, ...
by weina25 July 2, 2009
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empanada

1) A Latin American meat-pastry.

2) The vagina of a Latin American.
1) "That empanada was tasty."

2) "That Latin American's empanada was not tasty."
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Empath

1. An Empath is a person with a preternatural ability to apprehend the emotional state of another individual.

2. When the term Empath is used in online communities, it takes on a new meaning. Essentially it means a person with a preternatural ability to completely misunderstand the mental or emotional state of themselves and others.

3. A person who has the ability to understand and share in the feelings of another.

4. When one flips the coin of the title Empath, they come face to face with the darker side of Empathy or that of the Empathic Parasite. This type of person utilizes their ability to understand and share in the emotional states of others to manipulate people and situations to bring themselves front and center. These same people then begin to sustain themselves on the emotional energy of others, often leaving them feeling drained and/or exhausted.

5. Another definition of Empath is that of the Empathic Guru. The Empathic Guru is someone who believes it is their mission in life to do outreach to others and help guide them on their spiritual path to perfection, enlightenment, or infinite peace. In the doing, they willingly set themselves, their needs and wants, aside and sacrifice themselves for others, because this is where their sense of self and self worth rises out of.
Deanna Troi, from the television series Star Trek The Next Generation, brought the term Empath to the forfront of mainstream social consciousness with her abilities to feel the emotional currents of those around her, even at relatively long distances.
by EmberDust September 13, 2011
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Empathic Identification

To predict people's behaviour by using faculty of empathy.
Among all means of understanding someone's psyche, empathic identification is one of the cheif tool.
by Poirei K. S. October 4, 2007
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