empathic
adj/ɛmˈpæθɪk/
Etymology From empathy + -ic.
1
Showing or expressing empathy.
- Be fair to people: even those who manage to be empathic can't be telepathic. They're only human — they can't read your mind.
› Of, pertaining to, or being an empath…
2
Doing so through psychological talent or training.
- Be fair to people: not everyone can be empathic, like Cathy is. Her gift is rare.
3
Literature, Media, Parapsychology, Pseudoscience, Publishing, Science fiction Doing so through psychicness, telepathy, etc: that is, through either supernatural powers or neurotechnological powers.
- Near-synonyms: telempathic, telepathic
- I didn't know he was empathic until I realized that he had evidently read my mind with his cyborg implant.
- Derived terms
- empathically, empathic embarrassment, nonempathic, overempathic, unempathic