empathic

/ ˌɛmpəˈθɛtɪk; ɛmˈpæθɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to empathy

Derived Forms

• emˈpathically, adverb

Example Sentences

It’s more of an empathic feeling that can nurture a different way of thinking — especially in a theater, when you have 300 people of all different ideologies, sharing an empathic moment.

From Washington Post

If scientists can home in on the neurochemicals that foster empathic processes, Panksepp says, they may be able to design drugs to treat conditions, such as psychopathy or social personality disorders, that cause empathy to go awry.

From Science News

For those that go empathic, using platitudes like “we’re here for you” without a charitable element could lead to backlash.

From Digiday

What students do need to understand is that most people are in fact quite empathic.

From Freakonomics

The writing is, at turns, poignant, lively, empathic, and full of wit.

From The Daily Beast

I think there has to be an empathic strike between the reader and the protagonist.

From The Daily Beast

But the desire to nurture is born from blinding selfishness and little or no empathic capacity.

From The Daily Beast

That's right—Assange turns out to be an empathic and talented listener, at least when he's hosting a TV show.

From The Daily Beast

It is an empathic style that earned Blume the devotion of Generation X just as those kids came of age and began craving a guide.

From The Daily Beast

In the empathic paradigm, the subjectivity of the other is "assumed to be as whole and valid as that of the caregiver" (p. 68).

From Project Gutenberg

Gadow's contrasting paradigms, empathic and philanthropic, are relevant to this understanding.

From Project Gutenberg

But he did feel the wave of emotion that welled from her, impinging directly on his empathic sense.

From Project Gutenberg

And the mountain in question, seen from one double its height, will suggest the empathic activity of spreading itself out.

From Project Gutenberg

Had a virtually complete case of empathic paralysis when he came to us.

From Project Gutenberg