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Empathy

2 stages from Greek to English.

Today it means the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person
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Stage 1 of 2
empatheia
Greek · ancient
"feeling into something"
literally feeling into, from en- (in) and pathos (feeling)
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Stage 2 of 2
empathy
English · 1909
"the ability to understand and share another's feelings"
coined by psychologists to translate the German concept of Einfühlung, feeling into another's experience
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