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Einfühlungsvermögen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • empathy noun The ability to understand and share someone else's feelings.
  • insight noun A clear, often sudden, understanding of the true nature of something.
  • intuition noun An immediate understanding or feeling about something without conscious reasoning.
  • sympathy noun A feeling of pity or sorrow for someone else's suffering or misfortune.

Senses

Einfühlungsvermögen is used for these senses in English:

  • empathy The capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.
  • insight Intuitive apprehension of the inner nature of a thing or things; intuition.
  • intuition Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
  • sympathy The ability to share the feelings of another.

insight — full definition

  1. noun A clear, often sudden, understanding of the true nature of something.
  2. noun A person's awareness of their own condition, especially a mental health condition.

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