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empathy
noun(em-pa-thy)
the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also : the capacity for this
empathy
noun(em-pa-thy)
the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it

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