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einfühlsam — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • empathic adj Showing or expressing empathy.
  • feeling noun An emotion or emotional state.
  • gentle adj Kind, mild, and careful, especially in dealing with others.
  • insightful adjective Showing a clear, perceptive understanding of something.
  • perceptive adj Quick to notice or understand things; showing sharp insight.

Senses

einfühlsam is used for these senses in English:

  • feeling Emotionally sensitive.
  • gentle Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.
  • gentle Docile and easily managed.
  • insightful Possessing insight; percipient. [from 20th c.]
  • perceptive Having or showing keenness or sharpness of perception, insight, understanding, or intuition.

empathic — full definition

  1. adj Showing or expressing empathy.
  2. adj Of, pertaining to, or being an empath, having an extraordinarily high capability of sensing the emotions of others.
  3. adj Doing so through psychological talent or training.
  4. adj Doing so through psychicness, telepathy, etc: that is, through either supernatural powers or neurotechnological powers.

feeling — full definition

  1. noun An emotion or emotional state.
  2. noun A sensation experienced through the sense of touch.
  3. adj Showing or having strong emotional sensitivity.

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