n .
identification with the feelings or thoughts of another 다른 사람의 생각이나 감정과 동일화되는 것, 감정이입

• Shannon felt a great deal of empathy for Bill's suffering ; she knew just how he felt.
• 동사형은 empathize. 형용사는 empathic.
• Harry's tendency to empathize with creeps may arise from the fact that Harry himself is a creep.
  좀도둑들에게 공감하는 해리의 성향은 바로 해리 자신이 좀도둑이라는 데서 기인한 것일 수 있다.
• This word is sometimes confused with sympathy, which is compassion or shared feeling, and apathy, which means indifference or lack of feeling.