Empathy is the capacity to recognize and, to some extent, share feelings (such as sadness or happiness) 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.

Empathy is the key cornerstone in genuine human relationships. Sociopaths do not experience empathy as those who do not fall under this category. Empathy is conscious. It means one with empathy feel compassion, while those without do not take into account other people's affect emotions.

Psychopathology reveals that people with an absence of empathy can be defined as a sociopath or psychopath. A person who has empathy understands another.

An empathic, or empath, is someone who is extremely in tune to the emotions of those surrounding them. Because they are so sensitive, they are very creative and imaginative people. They usually have an interest in a wide range of topics and because of this they are often very skilled at several different things. Because they are always thinking about other people, they are generally very interested in other cultures and wondering how other people live. They view these ideas with a very open mind and rather than thinking about how living such a way would be different than their way of living, they imagine what it’s like for the people of that culture.

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