When a person who has lived through a great number of hardships in life shows the appropriate amount of baseline empathy, but the empathetic expression is couched in a level of practicality, survival and utilitarianism.
Jean-Claude Van Damme did a great job at conveying post-apocalyptic empathy in the 1989 movie Cyborg. There are small moments where he conveys great emotional responses in only split second intervals because he's mostly having to continue kicking ass.
by milesgilesniles May 18, 2020
Get the Post-Apocalyptic empathymug. A: *watches someone get sacked in the nuts*
B: *cups balls in pain of watching the poor sap get sacked in the nuts*
C: "hey why are you holding your nuts, you'd didn't get sacked"
B: "I feel it though bro, I'm feeling that nut sack empathy"
B: *cups balls in pain of watching the poor sap get sacked in the nuts*
C: "hey why are you holding your nuts, you'd didn't get sacked"
B: "I feel it though bro, I'm feeling that nut sack empathy"
by emlescure August 28, 2017
Get the nut sack empathymug. Faking expressions of understanding and sharing the feelings of another, especially in difficult situations. Indicating the need for a person to use crib notes so they can pretend to understand and share another person's feelings, experiences, and emotions. Parallel to the idiom crocodile tears that indicates feigning sorrow towards another.
We were asked to surface our grievances during the meeting, and all he offered us was crib note empathy.
by Spartacus9000 February 26, 2018
Get the crib note empathymug. person1: "...but after last night and what she did for me i owe that much right now"
person2: "ur giving her too much for a lil empathy"
person2: "ur giving her too much for a lil empathy"
by dirty santa hooker January 14, 2007
Get the too much for a lil empathymug. by Atherosclerosis September 17, 2025
Get the Orgasmic Empathymug. Yeah, you imagining what that cripple and that whore theoretically felt and then trying to make me feel that, is not empathy. It's (what they felt) completely imaginary to you.
Hym "And what good is your supposed empathy when it feels like I have a golfball in my brains and I can barely lift 50 pounds or stand up from a crouching position without getting lightheaded? This is why it's better to just murder your kids and then kill myself than deal with you. And I fully advocate that people murder as many kids as they can in the wake of my death if you leave me to die here. This is a perpetual slew of you going 'Oh... Well, I guess he was right... But it doesn't matter because wrong-think.' And that is why death threats ISN'T too far. Your life needs to be EXACTLY AS AT RISK AS MINE, UNTIL MINE IS NOT and then YOU need to live a life commensurate with YOUR output and I need to live a life commensurate with MY output and then pieces of shit need for stay as far away from me as humanly possible of I will fucking kill you."
by Hym Iam May 4, 2025
Get the Empathymug. Anisa's husband iCuckkkkz: "I have empathy"
H3H3: * Takes medicine for tourettes*
Anisa's husband: iCuckkkz: " Drug addict"
H3H3: * Takes medicine for tourettes*
Anisa's husband: iCuckkkz: " Drug addict"
by 2sm4rt May 29, 2025
Get the Empathymug.