OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 50602

empath

/ˈɛm.pæθ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
zahorí • émpata
One who has the ability to sense emotions; someone who is empathic or practises empathy.
émpata
A person with extrasensory empathic ability, capable of sensing the emotions of others around them in a way unexplained by conventional science and psychology.
How did a complete stranger know he was an empath? He rarely if ever talked about it, even to his closest friends. It made people uneasy.
She was the empath who would betray empaths if she got the chance. So they'd tried to fix things so that she didn't get the chance.
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