Empathize
Empathize verb - Be understanding of.
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Synonyms for Empathize
Relate to and empathize are semantically related in identify with topic. In some cases you can use "Relate to" instead a verb "Empathize", when it comes to topics like understand. popular alternative
Relate to
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Related pairs
- love and empathize
- love and relate to
- pity and empathize
- pity and relate to
- comfort and empathize
- comfort and relate to
- appreciate and empathize
- appreciate and relate to
- identify with and empathize
- identify with and relate to
- connect and empathize
- connect and relate to
- identify and empathize
- identify and relate to
Both terms in one sentence
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Notable because he goes on in "The Eyes" about how he can't empathize or relate to anyone who can't sleep when they feel like they're being watched.
Source: Creator / Doug Walker -
He was intended to be a more realistic contrast to stereotypical highly idealized superheroes who seemed to have it all, instead facing the kind of problems, setbacks, dreams denied, worries and challenges that average readers could relate to and empathize with.
Source: Kafka Komedy - In "The Diabolical Kind", she even asks Sherlock, the only one she can relate to, how he manages to empathize with other people and be "one of them".
Source: The Sociopath / Live-Action TV
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