empathetic
adjectiveAble to understand or share another person's feelings and experience.
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Able to understand or share another person's feelings and experience.
The 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.
An attempt to match or surpass a model through imitation.
To express the essential features of something briefly.
To include or surround within a larger whole.
To gradually intrude on another person's space, time, or rights.
A gradual intrusion into another space, right, or activity.
Intrusion beyond a boundary
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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.
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 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.
An orderly listing or count of separate items.
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