empathetically
Feeling another's pain
Empathetically means with empathy—understanding and sharing another person's feelings.
It describes doing something while emotionally attuned to someone else's experience: She listened empathetically as he described his loss.
The word is often interchangeable with empathically, though empathetically is more common in everyday speech.
With caring concern
- sympatheticallyWith shared feeling
- kindlyWarmly, with goodwill
- warmlyWith affection shown
- gentlyIn a mild manner
tenderly · caringly · lovingly · mercifully · benevolently · humanely · graciously · charitably
With keen understanding
- intuitivelyBy innate understanding
- perceptivelyWith keen awareness
- discerninglyWith keen perception
- sensitivelyWith emotional awareness
mindfully · observantly · astutely · keenly · receptively · responsively · understandingly · knowingly
With evident emotion
- deeplyTo a profound extent
- soulfullyWith deep feeling
- wholeheartedlyWith total commitment
- genuinelyIn a real manner
sincerely · authentically · resonantly · connectedly · relatably · viscerally · movingly · touchingly
compassionately
With caring concern
- sympatheticallyWith shared feeling
- kindlyWarmly, with goodwill
- warmlyWith affection shown
gently · tenderly · caringly · lovingly · mercifully · benevolently · humanely · graciously · charitably · selflessly
insightfully
With keen understanding
- intuitivelyBy innate understanding
- perceptivelyWith keen awareness
- discerninglyWith keen perception
sensitively · mindfully · observantly · astutely · keenly · receptively · responsively · understandingly · knowingly · thoughtfully
feelingly
With evident emotion
- deeplyTo a profound extent
- soulfullyWith deep feeling
- wholeheartedlyWith total commitment
genuinely · sincerely · authentically · resonantly · connectedly · relatably · viscerally · movingly · touchingly · affectingly
- adverbsquickly, slowly, very, really, now
- manner of listeningactively, passively, attentively, intently, closely
- mental adverbsmentally, cognitively, consciously, unconsciously, subconsciously
empatheticallycoldly
Without emotional warmth
detachedly · unfeelingly · dispassionately · apathetically · indifferently
empatheticallyheartlessly
Without empathy or care
cruelly · callously · unsympathetically · mercilessly · ruthlessly
empatheticallyselfishly
In a self-centered manner
egocentrically · narcissistically · dismissively · contemptuously · disdainfully
empathy, sympathy, sympathetic, sympathize, empathetic, empathize, empathized, empathizes, empathizing