empathy with/for• They could combine their compassion and empathy with being helpful.• Communication that demonstratesempathy for the listener will produce highly favorablereactions.• They feel empathy for what he felt.• Both authors have the skill to make you feel great empathy with their heroines.• Any practising industrial chemist will have great empathy with this and many other of the author's sentiments.• I felt a very realempathy for it.• Perhaps arising from the close personalcomradeship of those war years was Basil's empathy withordinary working folk.• He concludes, not by committing himself to atheism but showing empathy with it.
Originempathy
(1900-2000)Greekempatheia, from pathos“suffering, feeling”