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You can use it when you want to describe the act of being able to understand and share the feelings of another person. For example, "He was empathizing with her plight, and was eager to help her in any way he could."
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empathizing
verb
Present participle of empathize
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Many people have thought that this kind of understanding can be gained only by empathizing with the person by "putting oneself in his shoes"; others have thought that it requires judging the person according to certain norms of rationality that are not part of natural science.
Other studies published in 2006 and 2009 showed something similar — that people who read a lot of fiction tend to be better at empathizing with others (even after the researchers had accounted for the potential bias that people with greater empathetic tendencies may prefer to read novels).
If you are busy empathizing with blind firefighters — if your goal is to treat them with the same consideration you would sighted golfers — how do you get them to consider that everyone might be better off if they played at night?
"Empathizing with the hardships being caused by the recent Zika virus outbreak across many countries, Tata Motors, as a socially responsible company, has decided to re-brand the car," Tata Motors said in a statement.
Empathizing with women is much of the secret of the Mail's success".
In "Ms. Omni," the horror is that one can't help empathizing with the old bat; in "The Moroccan," it is that one can't but be amused by the abasement of someone patently adorable.
But, she adds, "if you're identifying with women, shouldn't you be empathizing with women?" Sandy Stone shares this view — up to a point.
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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.
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