empathy
nounThe capacity to understand or share another person's feelings or perspective.
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Clear all filtersThe capacity to understand or share another person's feelings or perspective.
Based on observation or experience rather than theory alone.
Based on observation
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To strive to equal or surpass a model through imitation.
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To express the essential features of something briefly.
To delight or charm someone deeply.
To include or surround within a larger whole.
To gradually intrude on another person's space, time, or rights.
One word family: also includes encroachment.
An earnest attempt or sustained effort toward a goal.
Regularly present or characteristic within a particular place or group.
Originating within the system or organism being considered.
To weaken or drain of energy.
Attractive or interesting enough to hold attention.
To cause a feeling, situation, or condition to arise.
Cause to arise
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Absorbed in something to the exclusion of other concerns.
To improve or increase a quality, value, or effect.
Improve a quality or effect
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Something puzzling or difficult to understand.
Extreme wickedness or outrageousness.
To settle comfortably or securely in a place.
To involve or require as a necessary part or consequence.
To hold someone's attention completely through fascination or delight.
Hold spellbound
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To attract or persuade someone by offering something appealing.
A group of companions, assistants, or attendants surrounding a person.
To list or specify items one by one.
One word family: also includes enumeration.
To imagine or picture a future possibility.
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