empath
noun/ˈɛm.pæθ/
Etymology From empathy.
› Someone with an extraordinarily high…
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Someone who does so through psychological talent or training, thus having an unusually good level of empathy.
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Literature, Media, Parapsychology, Pseudoscience, Publishing, Science fiction Someone who does so through psychicness, telepathy, etc: that is, through either supernatural powers or neurotechnological powers.
- Near-synonyms: telempath, telepath
- She was the empath who would betray empaths if she got the chance. So they'd tried to fix things so that she didn't get the chance.1957, Hans Stefan Santesson, editor, Fantastic Universe:
2 more examples
- How did a complete stranger know he was an empath? He rarely if ever talked about it, even to his closest friends. It made people uneasy.2005, Catherine Asaro, Schism:
- The aura may, in fact, linger around objects or places and that "lingering energy" is what an empath senses and intuits.2007, Ellen Dugan, Natural Witchery:
- Derived terms
- dark empath, telempath
- Related terms
- empathic, empathically