0 present participle of empathize
1 to be able to understand how someone else feels:
It's very easy to empathize with the characters in her books.
Rather, the cinematic record of his experiences serves as a shared memory, between him and the viewers who are empathizing with his experiences.
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.
Empathizing with the actors' difficult task of memorizing and performing a new play within a few hours, the audience often responds with sympathetic laughter when the actors improvise.
Feminist standpoint involves taking a critical stance with regard to one's own experience, imaginatively empathizing with others, and attempting discursively to develop a fuller picture of reality.
Regan is at his best when he is describing the strategic situation and empathizing with the dilemmas of the various protagonists of this otherwise senseless war.
His method involved empathizing with animals, often using anthropomorphization to imagine their mental states.
Marissa, empathizing with this change and the need for closure, begins a casual relationship with him.
Specifically, work-related tasks that require emotion work thought to be natural for women, such as caring and empathizing are requirements of many female-dominated occupations.
