noun
: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
“Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.” ―Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
ORIGIN early 20th cent.: from Greek empatheia (from em- ‘in’ + pathos ‘feeling’).
long hair, miniskirts,
Sophocles, Tolstoy,
Mark Twain,
Euripides,
Russian-style toasts,
to strike,
freedom of association,
Lurcat,
Aeschylus, Aristophanes,
Ionesco, Sartre,
The Beatles, Albee, Pinter,
writing that Socrates was homosexual,
order of lawyers,
to learn Russian,
to learn Bulgarian,
freedom of the press,
international encyclopedia,
sociology,
Beckett,
Dostoyevsky, Chekhov,
Gorky,
modern music,
pop music,
modern mathematics,
peace movements,
and the letter Z.
T. S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday
“Baptism” by Crystal Castles
