/'empəθɪ; `ɛmpəθɪ/
n [U]
1 ability to imagine and share another person's feelings, experience, etc 感情移入, 同感（对他人的感情、经历等的想像力和感受力）
*There is a strange empathy between the old lady and her grandson. 老妇人和她孙子间有种莫名其妙的心灵相通的感觉.
2 ability to identify oneself mentally with eg a work of art that one is looking at, and so to understand its meaning 神入（全神贯注于某事物如一艺术品, 以理解其真谛的能力）.

n[U]
[Date: 1900-2000; Language: Greek;Origin: empatheia, from pathos 'suffering, feeling']
the ability to understand other people's feelings and problems
→sympathyempathy with/for
　She had great empathy with people.
>empathetic [,empə'θetɪk/