empath

English

Etymology

From empathy.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛm.pæθ/
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Noun

empath (plural empaths)

  1. Someone with an extraordinarily high capability of sensing the emotions of others.
    1. Someone who does so through psychological talent or training, thus having an unusually good level of empathy.
      Coordinate terms: telempath, telepath
      Hyponym: dark empath
    2. (parapsychology or science fiction) Someone who does so through psychicness, telepathy, etc: that is, through either supernatural powers or neurotechnological powers.
      Near-synonyms: telempath, telepath
      • 1957, Hans Stefan Santesson, editor, Fantastic Universe:
        She was the empath who would betray empaths if she got the chance. So they'd tried to fix things so that she didn't get the chance.
      • 2005, Catherine Asaro, Schism:
        How did a complete stranger know he was an empath? He rarely if ever talked about it, even to his closest friends. It made people uneasy.
      • 2007, Ellen Dugan, Natural Witchery:
        The aura may, in fact, linger around objects or places and that "lingering energy" is what an empath senses and intuits.

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