Empathy

Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another being (a human or non-human animal) is experiencing from within the other being's frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another's position.

Etymology

The English word is derived from the Ancient Greek word ἐμπάθεια (empatheia), "physical affection, passion, partiality" which comes from ἐν (en), "in, at" and πάθος (pathos), "passion" or "suffering". The term was adapted by Hermann Lotze and Robert Vischer to create the German word Einfühlung ("feeling into"), which was translated by Edward B. Titchener into the English term empathy.

Alexithymia (the word comes from the Ancient Greek words αλέξω ("alexo" verb meaning remove, repel in order to protect) and θυμός (thymos, "soul, as the seat of emotion, feeling, and thought") modified by an alpha-privative, literally meaning "repelling emotions"), is a term to describe a state of deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions in oneself.

Definitions

Empath (disambiguation)

An empath is someone with empathy.

Empath may also refer to:

See also

Empath (comics)

Empath (Manuel Alfonso Rodrigo de la Rocha), is a fictional mutant in the Marvel Universe.

Publication history

Empath was created by Chris Claremont and Sal Buscema and first appeared in New Mutants #16-17 (June–July 1984) as a member of Emma Frost's original Hellions.

The character subsequently appears in The Uncanny X-Men #193 (May 1985), Firestar #2-4 (April–June 1986), The New Mutants #26 (April 1985), The Uncanny X-Men #193 (May 1985), The New Mutants #28 (June 1985), #31 (September 1985), Firestar #2-4 (April–June 1986), The New Mutants #38-40 (April–June 1986), #43 (September 1986), #53-54 (July–August 1987), #56 (October 1987), #62 (April 1988), The New Mutants Annual #4 (1988), The New Mutants #81 (November 1989), The Uncanny X-Men #281 (October 1991), The New Warriors #31 (January 1993), #45-46 (March–April 1994), X-Force #32-34 (March–May 1994), X-Universe #1-2 (May–June 1995) by Scott Lobdell and Terry Kavanagh, X-Treme X-Men #31-35 (November 2003-January 2004), The X-Men: 198 Files (March 2006) by Eric J. Moreels, Marc-Oliver Frisch, and Brian E. Wilkinson, X-Men: The 198 #1-5 (March–July 2006), and The Uncanny X-Men #500-501.