noun. The ability to identify with or understand another's situation or feelings: synonym: pity.

noun. The attribution of one's own feelings to an object.

noun. the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person

noun. capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding

noun. a paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions

noun. understanding and entering into another's feelings

"The term empathy first appeared in the work of a German psychologist, Theodore Lipps, toward the end of the nineteenth century."

fellow-feeling  sympathy  

compassion  comprehension  compunction  exasperation  fairness  

accent  accentuation  accord  accordance  affinity