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empathist

empathist noun: a member of a group of philosophers who proposed a foundation for human aesthetic enjoyment based on empathy.

Noun (1)

empathist (plural empathists)

  1. (historical) A member of a group of philosophers who proposed a foundation for human aesthetic enjoyment based on empathy.
  2. Someone able to sense the emotions of others through extrasensory perception; an empath.

Noun (2) capitalized: Empathist

Empathist (plural Empathists)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of empathist.

Forms of empathist

pluralempathists
alternative formEmpathist
pluralEmpathists

Origin of empathist

From empathy + -ist.

Questions about empathist

What does empathist mean?
Empathist means a member of a group of philosophers who proposed a foundation for human aesthetic enjoyment based on empathy.
What part of speech is empathist?
Empathist is a noun.
What is the plural of empathist?
The plural of empathist is empathists.

Words near empathist in the dictionary

  1. empathised
  2. empathiser
  3. empathisers
  4. empathises
  5. empathising
  6. empathist
  7. empathists
  8. empathize
  9. empathized
  10. empathizer
  11. empathizers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: empathist (page history and authors); Empathist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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