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empathical

empathical adjective: pertaining to empathy.

Adjective

empathical (comparative more empathical, superlative most empathical)

  1. Pertaining to empathy.
    • 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.2010, Rebekka A. Klein, “How Do We Know about the Self: Theoretical, Experiential, and Neural?”, in Dirk Evers, Antje Jackelen, Taede Smedes, editor, How Do We Know?: Understanding in Science and...
    • 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.2014, Maria Nikolajeva, Reading for Learning, page 7

Forms of empathical

comparativemore empathical
superlativemost empathical

Origin of empathical

From empathy + -ical.

Words formed from empathical

Questions about empathical

What does empathical mean?
Empathical means pertaining to empathy.
What part of speech is empathical?
Empathical is an adjective.

Words near empathical in the dictionary

  1. empathetical
  2. empathetically
  3. empathic
  4. empathic embarrassment
  5. empathic embarrassments
  6. empathical
  7. empathicalism
  8. empathically
  9. empathies
  10. empathise
  11. empathised

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