Inanimate Object Empathy Disorder (IOED) is an armchair-psychological designation for people who experience extreme amounts of empathy for inanimate objects -- specifically objects that depict living things that appear damaged or distressed.
IOED describes someone who experiences legitimate feelings towards objects that appear as if they deserve sympathy, support, and even help as if they were animate beings. However, because these objects are not actually living beings, these impulses to care for, help, and support are misplaced. Hence the disorder designation.
If someone if your life continually says things like "awwwww.... that poor x" where x is more often than not a stuffed animal with a missing ear or a tear in its fabric, then that person in your life suffers from IOED.
IOED describes someone who experiences legitimate feelings towards objects that appear as if they deserve sympathy, support, and even help as if they were animate beings. However, because these objects are not actually living beings, these impulses to care for, help, and support are misplaced. Hence the disorder designation.
If someone if your life continually says things like "awwwww.... that poor x" where x is more often than not a stuffed animal with a missing ear or a tear in its fabric, then that person in your life suffers from IOED.
Using the term Inanimate Object Empathy Disorder (IOED) in context: Because my wife has IOED, when she found 2 stuffed animals on the road, disheveled, she felt a burning desire to "save" them and "nurse them back to health" in our home. Now, thanks to her IOED, we have a new shelf in our family room with "recovering" stuffed animals on it that fill her heart with joy every day.
by NewPOV January 23, 2025
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
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
**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
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 03, 2020
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 07, 2022
Opposite of narcissist personality disorder pplz ie healthy narcissists whom are real that have a true identity and are capable of having access to this faculty ie U have other faculties like your breathing channels watered down that expends onto your nose right anywayzz it's simple if you don't have a true identity you don't have capacity for empathy and empathy is development over time that becomes more and more abundant ie you gain more statik charge ie core of energetic ties n connections aka railing in your psyche. Further more empathy is psychic that is it's channeled through energetic funnels which are individual ie you do U I'll do Me hence you ll find that your evolution is felt as vibrations which extend over your whole life depending on what you mak of yourself or the latter.
All in all empathy is the natural functioning of the psyche that relates to intuition and the processes of the system that are able to be picked up on and correctly attributed this involves emotional perception yet you'll find its overall much more than feeling what it's like to b in sum1elzez shoes ie psychic potential
Example: "oh look it's that narcissist parasite again avoid avoid avoid" *thinking to self* "alas you are indeed a thorn in my side.. walking around like they @lready ded" <- no true identity hence recognised as a flip of the percept that teaches self actualization and self realisation and identification of the self as an individual hence you learn to ground your self.
All in all empathy is the natural functioning of the psyche that relates to intuition and the processes of the system that are able to be picked up on and correctly attributed this involves emotional perception yet you'll find its overall much more than feeling what it's like to b in sum1elzez shoes ie psychic potential
Example: "oh look it's that narcissist parasite again avoid avoid avoid" *thinking to self* "alas you are indeed a thorn in my side.. walking around like they @lready ded" <- no true identity hence recognised as a flip of the percept that teaches self actualization and self realisation and identification of the self as an individual hence you learn to ground your self.
This guy is legit he is really charged, deep empathy br0.
I thought I had high levels of empathy till I recognised the true Playa.
I thought I had high levels of empathy till I recognised the true Playa.
by VALAB0$H0 February 06, 2022