Empathy

* The intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person; capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.

* The feeling or capacity for awareness, understanding, and sensitivity one experiences when hearing or reading of some event or activity of others, thus imagining the same sensations as that of those actually experiencing them.

* Ability to emotionally relate to another individual's emotional state.

* The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner.