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Descriptor English:   Empathy 
Descriptor Spanish:   Empatía 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Empatia 
Synonyms English:   Caring
Compassion  
Tree Number:   F01.752.355
F01.752.543.500.500
Definition English:   An individual's objective and insightful awareness of the feelings and behavior of another person. It should be distinguished from sympathy, which is usually nonobjective and noncritical. It includes caring, which is the demonstration of an awareness of and a concern for the good of others. (From Bioethics Thesaurus, 1992) 
History Note English:   71 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
CL classification DE drug effects
ES ethics GE genetics
PH physiology RE radiation effects
Record Number:   4721 
Unique Identifier:   D004645 

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