Empathy and Malignity

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Empathy

Empathy noun - Understanding and entering into another's feelings.
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Malignity is an antonym for empathy.
Nearby Words: empathize, empathise, empathizing, empathising

Malignity

Malignity noun - The desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm.
Usage example: one of the characters in the novel is a slave driver of such malignity that he came to be one of the most famous villains in all of literature
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Empathy is an antonym for malignity.
Nearby Words: malign, malignancy, malignly
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