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きょうかん 共感
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Noun, Suru verb, Intransitive verb
1. sympathy; empathy; response; identification (with someone)​
Wikipedia definition
2. Empathy​Empathy is the capacity to recognize feelings that are being experienced by another sentient or semi-sentient being. Someone may need to have a certain amount of empathy before they are able to feel compassion. The English word was coined in 1909 by E.B. Titchener as an attempt to translate the German word "Einfühlungsvermögen", a new phenomenon explored at the end of 19th century mainly by Theodor Lipps.
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