empathise in English

verb

1

understand and share the feelings of another.

counselors need to be able to empathize with people

synonyms: identify with, sympathize with, be in sympathy with, understand, share the feelings of, be in tune with, be on the same wavelength as, talk the same language as, relate to, feel for, have insight into, put oneself in someone else's shoes

verb

• identify with, sympathize with, be in sympathy with, understand, share the feelings of, be in tune with, be on the same wavelength as, talk the same language as, relate to, feel for, have insight into, put oneself in someone else's shoes
• sympathize, understand

Use "empathise" in a sentence

1. Empathise and really listen to their words and the feelings behind them. Empathise an sympathise as appropriate.

2. What is more, those who choose not to empathise may enable real monsters.

3. Parents, who don't empathise with their child are quick to deform their child's personality.

4. We laugh at their foolishness, yet we also empathise with the burdens they bear.

5. Synonyms for Commiserate include sympathise, sympathize, console, empathise, empathize, pity, comfort, solace, condole and compassion

6. By healing the pain buried within childhood, parents can learn to empathise with the pain their children suffer.

7. They finally chose goats, reasoning that no one could empathise with a creature as ugly as a goat.

8. They might empathise with the human "plate", you see, and be unable to enjoy their meal.

9. And how can we empathise with them if we don't have an emotional vocabulary to draw on?

10. Anxiety, panic, insomnia and the rest are a part of the human condition - everyone can empathise to some extent.

11. There is a beginning, and something follows from that – you are introduced to the characters, you begin to empathise with them, and so on.

12. Davis said: "I empathise with a lot of what John said last week about the practice being difficult, it's difficult to reinvent your motivation."

13. It is only by imagining ourselves into the world of the early 19th century that we can begin to empathise with Fanny's scruples.

14. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

15. Because it enables viewers to empathise and identify with a woman encountering these harms, it opens up especially valuable discussions of the pornography issue.

16. A woman who can't empathise with the plights of other women, or even listen to the people around her, is not someone who should be in the White House.

17. Her ability to empathise and her fearless courage in holding up her own dark past to the limelight, meant she could really connect with her guests and her audience.

18. What is more, those who choose not to empathise may enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.

19. Email has made it increasingly acceptable to break news that people don't want to hear while opting out of having to listen to them hearing what you have to say, and empathise with their response.

20. ‘I vote Altruistically, for the benefit of others and for an idea of the kind of world I want for future generations.’ More example sentences ‘All other things being equal, you'd expect people who develop the ability to empathise and act Altruistically to live longer and procreate more often.’

21. ‘I vote Altruistically, for the benefit of others and for an idea of the kind of world I want for future generations.’ More example sentences ‘All other things being equal, you'd expect people who develop the ability to empathise and act Altruistically to live longer and procreate more often.’