nut sack empathy

The painful empathetic feeling a man gets in his nuts, while watching another man get a nut shot.

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"

by emlescure August 28, 2017

Post-Apocalyptic empathy

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

crib note empathy

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

too much for a lil empathy

Giving someone too much credit than they deserve

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"

by dirty santa hooker January 14, 2007

meta empathy

The ability for a person to simultaneously consider their own position, feelings, motivations, etc. as well as those of another person (or group of people).

The reason he was such an effective communicator was because of his meta empathy, people with whom he was speaking always felt like he understood them intuitively.

by GPM415 December 29, 2021

chronic empathy

Too much empathy for your own good. Putting yourself in unhealthy situations for the benefit of someone else.

Jacob gave his only winter coat to his friend who didn’t have one. Now Jacob no longer has a coat himself. Jacob struggles with chronic empathy

by jacbarc October 2, 2022

Empathy

“Empathy” to understand others in order to help them.

I always have empathy for others because I would want them to understand me in my time of need.

by -Myers.J September 8, 2025