"empathize" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb that means to understand and share the feelings of another person. Example: John was able to empathize with his friend when she was going through a difficult time.
For some, it requires that the empathizers and the persons they empathize with need to be in very similar affective states (Coplan 2011; de Vignemont and Singer 2006; Jacob 2011).
He also pointed to his humble beginnings growing up on a farm in Paint Creek, Texas – a home he said was "too small to even call it a town" – to empathize with the plight many Americans are facing today.
This, to me, is gossip: At one point, trying out a debating point that she believed showed she could empathize with uninsured Americans, Palin told McCain aides that she and Todd in the early years of their marriage had been unable to afford health insurance of any kind, and had gone without it until he got his union card and went to work for British Petroleum on the North Slope of Alaska.
Some writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Lincoln Steffens, believed that reporters are morally obligated to write stories that are true, well-crafted, and rhetorically persuasive because they can lead readers to empathize with their subjects and can inspire action against social injustice and abuses of power.
Based on Dreiser's remembrance of his beloved mother, Jennie emerges as a plaster saint with whom most modern readers find it difficult to empathize.
Such imitation presumably has a civilizing value for those who empathize with it.
Mental images are cultivated and efforts are made to empathize with God or with figures from the Bible.
But as he pursued the insurgents, Chávez began to empathize with them, seeing them as peasants fighting for a better life.
When Lennon's mother was killed by a speeding police car in 1958, McCartney, with his own mother's death still fresh in his memory, was able to empathize with the distraught 17-year-old, creating a bond that became the basis of their close friendship.
Those with high interpersonal intelligence are able to get along well with others, work cooperatively, communicate effectively, empathize with others, and motivate others.
However, meeting with Miller in person in Beverly Hills, to discuss her latest role in the action film G.I. Joe: the Rise of Cobra, it's hard not to empathize with this likeable young woman whose ambitions and dreams are not dissimilar to any other 27 year old.
