sympathize(UNDERSTAND)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Empathy and sensitivity
attuned
commune
commune with something
communicate
communicate with someone/something
communion
empathically
empathy
identify
identify with someone
in communion with someone/something
relate
self-communing
self-communion
sensitive
sensitively
sensitiveness
speak
speak someone's languageidiom
understanding

Examples of empathize

empathize
To empathize with what is happening on the stage one has to be pretty simple-hearted.
If true, then similarity of body is a key factor in the extent to which two parties can empathize with one another.
The key is rather the author's striking ability to empathize.
Few of us well understand, much less empathize with, environmental models.
On another, and more intrinsically subjective interpretation, the speaker empathizes with the protagonist, reconstructing her mental processes.
In the distrust example, caregivers should emotionally connect to and empathize with anger, frustration, fearfulness, and other emotions that often ride with distrust.
All in all, we understand the emotion of others, and empathize with them, by invoking the very same neural activity associated with our own emotions.
Characters presented mainly in the third person will tend to seem "distant," hard to empathize with.
In order to identify and empathize with the experience of the cross, contemporary saints deliberately inflicted a variety of punishments on themselves.
Some statistics instructors, for example, become unable to empathize with their students for whom the basic probability axioms are not transparent.
Why should a male subject empathize more with male than female objects?
Being preverbal, these processes enable infants and toddlers to empathize.
Although the audience's engagement with the performance is largely cerebral, each listener empathizes with the physical stresses of the conductor's dance.
It is feasible that more distance is created, along with a diminished ability to empathize with the plight of the patient.
This finding suggests difficulty in truly empathizing with the characters in the stories or an indifference to the impact of the faux pas on the speaker or the listener.
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