Empathy and Hatefulness

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Empathy noun - Understanding and entering into another's feelings.

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Hatefulness is an antonym for empathy.

Hatefulness noun - The desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm.

Usage example: her political commentary seems to be nothing more than an exercise in hatefulness and vicious invective

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Empathy is an antonym for hatefulness.

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