empathized

Shared another's feelings

Empathized is the past tense of empathize, meaning to understand and share another person's feelings or perspective.

Unlike sympathy, which observes suffering from outside, empathy enters into it: She empathized with his frustration after losing the job.

Having been through divorce himself, he empathized deeply with what she was facing.

connection

bonded

Fastened or emotionally connected

rapport · affinity · kinship · harmony · synchrony · mirrored · aligned · identified · shared · engaged

cognition

understood

Grasped the meaning

acknowledged · realized · discerned · intuited · appreciated · fathomed · comprehended · sensed · registered · absorbed

compassion

sympathy

Compassionate understanding of others

tenderness · warmth · sensitivity · understanding · pity · solicitude · consolation · comforting · gentleness · supportiveness

Opposites
emotional engagement

empathizeddismissed

Released from duty

ignored · disregarded · tuned out · detached · disconnected

interpersonal response

empathizeddismissed

Released from duty

rejected · scorned · invalidated · disregarded · ignored

Family

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