empathy
A2CEFR level
15/100Rarity: common
NeutralRegister
General noun
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another person.
Her natural empathy made her a gifted counsellor whom clients trusted immediately.
Medicine noun
The capacity to understand and share another person's feelings from their point of view.
Responding with empathy, she acknowledged how frightening the voices must feel to him.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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