Empathy

The ability to understand another person’s experience and point of view, more specifically “the act of perceiving, understanding, experiencing, and responding to the emotional state and ideas of another person.”

anticipate, appreciate, commiserate, empathize, identify, perceive, recognize, respond, understand

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