0 (especially in science fiction stories) a person who has an unusually strong ability to feel other people's emotional or mental states:
He was like that Star Trek character, the empath, who can psychically read the emotions of those before him.
Rebecca's relatives describe her as an "empath," someone who earnestly feels what others experience.
To go so deeply under the skin of her subjects, and to chronicle their lives so fully, the writer must be an "empath" from the movie Minority Report.
