Empathy and Malignance

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

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Malignance is an antonym for empathy.

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

Usage example: in meting out the harsh sentence, the judge cited the exceptional malignance and ruthlessness with which the rape was committed

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Empathy is an antonym for malignance.

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