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Is empathy a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word empathy is a Scrabble US word. The word empathy is worth 17 points in Scrabble:

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Is empathy a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word empathy is a Scrabble UK word and has 17 points:

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Is empathy a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word empathy is a Words With Friends word. The word empathy is worth 17 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

EMPATHY,

6-letter words (1 found)

HYPATE,

5-letter words (10 found)

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4-letter words (43 found)

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3-letter words (52 found)

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2-letter words (21 found)

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1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 129 words from empathy according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of empathy

empathy

Etymology

A twentieth-century borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐμπάθεια (empátheia, literally “passion”) (formed from ἐν (en, “in, at”) + πάθος (páthos, “feeling”)), coined by Edward Bradford Titchener in 1909 to translate German Einfühlung. The modern word in Greek εμπάθεια (empátheia) has an opposite meaning denoting strong negative feelings and prejudice against someone.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛmpəθi/

Noun

empathy (countable and uncountable, plural empathies)

  1. Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person.
    Synonym: fellow feeling
  2. The capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.
  3. (parapsychology, science fiction) A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.
  4. (obsolete slang) MDMA.
    Synonym: ecstasy

Usage notes

Used similarly to sympathy, interchangeably in looser usage. In stricter usage, empathy is stronger and more intimate, meaning that the subject understands and shares an emotion with the object—as in “I feel your pain”—while sympathy is weaker and more distant—concern, but not shared emotion: “I care for you” or "I feel sorry for you."

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Further reading

  • empathy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “empathy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • empathy in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
  • “empathy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Source: wiktionary.org