empathic
pronunciation
How to pronounce empathic in British English:
UK [ɪm'pæθɪk]
How to pronounce empathic in American English:
US [em'pæθɪk]
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- Adjective:
- showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states
Word Origin
- empathic (adj.)
- 1909 [Titchener], from empathy + -ic. Related: Empathically. Treated as a coinage of Titchener's when it appeared in psychological writing; there are dozens of uses of empathic in printed material from the late 19th century but most of these appear to be errors for emphatic.
Example
- 1. Be different and be more empathic to customer influence .
- 2. She can be funny and sharp-tongued , warm and blunt , empathic and demanding .
- 3. Empathic listening ought to be our goal as toastmasters .
- 4. This new understanding goes hand-in-hand with discoveries in evolutionary biology , neuro-cognitive science and child development that reveal that human beings are biologically predisposed to be empathic .
- 5. Without that willingness to listen it is therefor impossible to be empathic .