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Synonyms for empathetic

cognizant of and comprehending the needs, feelings, problems, and views of others

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Synonyms for empathetic

showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states

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"He (Anupam) visited the campus several times and had an empathetic ear for the concerns and issues of the Institute.
The photographer's perspective from across the field seems a metaphor for Verene's relationship to Galesburg: It affords a view that's inclusive and empathetic, while figuring the psychological distance enabling his clarity of vision an ironic acknowledgment of Verene's ambivalent position as both townie and auteur.
Kjel, as kind and empathetic as he is handsome, invites her to travel with the band as their manager.
Ellen Spiro's surprisingly sprightly docu concerns a Texas Girl Scout troop whose mandate is "to strengthen the bond between girls and their incarcerated mothers in order to break the cycle of crime." While empathetic to their subjects' plight (pic follows five women and seven girls), and in tune with the social experiment the troop represents (the girls are regularly brought to prison for structured encounters), filmmakers remain aware of the ironies of juxtaposing jail time and brownie points.
Smith's icon of suffering engages the viewer in an empathetic recall of past wrongs, from environmental degradation to cultural annihilation through, among other causes, the spread of disease.
That isn't so much a political mistake as an empathetic one, argues historian Jonathan Ned Katz in his deeply researched book on 19th-century same-sex love affairs, Love Stories.
But, unlike Arbus, she makes empathetic picture stories as well as single portraits.
Attending to shifting European perceptions of the Ottoman empire and the so-called Turkish threat, for example, Parr mounts something of a defense of Renaissance England's ability to consider the Other on empathetic and sophisticated terms.
The Nixon that emerges from these pages is an empathetic figure, prone to the tantrums, ill-considered opinions, and small conceits we indulge in at one time or another.
They exercised their editorial hand with a pretty light touch, only asking their contributing scholars to accept the designation of their movements as "fundamentalistic," to write from a perspective "empathetic" to the movement considered, and to eschew technical jargon in an effort to reach the informed laity, nonspecialists but interested readers.
Empathy Quotient or EQ, a brief self-report measure of empathy developed by University of Cambridge scientists, demonstrated that some of us are more empathetic than others, and that women, on average, are slightly more empathetic than men.
Earlier this week, my colleague, the wise and empathetic Carly Pildis, wrote a thoughtful and powerful piece about the political future of American Jews.
Summary: Dras (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], July 24 (ANI): Following Kargil Diwas celebrations, Indian Army personnel on Wednesday gave a demonstration here of a Bofors gun, which was used in the empathetic victory of Kargil war.
"Our findings highlight the value of the human empathetic aspects of health care that also require this same personalized medicine enacted in a different form," the authors write.
Businessolver's 2019 State of Workplace Empathy study found 93% of individuals are likely to stay with an empathetic employer and 91% of CEOs believe empathy affects an organization's financial performance.