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cold empathy

cold empathy noun: the cognitive capacity to comprehend another individual’s emotional state or perspective without experiencing a corresponding emotional response.

Noun

cold empathy (uncountable)

  1. The cognitive capacity to comprehend another individual’s emotional state or perspective without experiencing a corresponding emotional response.

Questions about cold empathy

What does cold empathy mean?
Cold empathy means the cognitive capacity to comprehend another individual’s emotional state or perspective without experiencing a corresponding emotional response.
What part of speech is cold empathy?
Cold empathy is a noun.

Words near cold empathy in the dictionary

  1. cold email
  2. cold emailed
  3. cold emailing
  4. cold emailings
  5. cold emails
  6. cold empathy
  7. cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
  8. cold extraction
  9. cold extractions
  10. cold feet
  11. cold finger

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