Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

empathical

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: em-path-i-cal
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to empathy.

Example Sentences

"For this purpose, the phenomenological notion of an experiential, minimal selfhood is applied to experimental findings regarding the neural constitution of empathical reactions in the brain."
"Suzanne Keen (2007) deals with authors' empathical involvement with fiction in Chapter 5, and in Chapter 6, she also contextualises empathy as a shared social practice."
"In this respect, the standpoint influenced by historical epistemology is close to Hanson's statement that the reconstruction of implicational meanings does not require an empathical identification with beliefs and feelings of the actors; empathy with them is not necessary for proper comprehension of studied culture."

Etymology

From empathy + -ical.

Inflected Forms

more empathical (comparative) most empathical (superlative)

Derived Forms

empathicalism empathically

Questions

What does empathical mean?: Pertaining to empathy.
Where does empathical come from?: From empathy + -ical.

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