empathic

1. 1.

   showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states

   “a sensitive and empathetic school counselor”

   Synonymsempathetic

   Similarsympathetic

Questions about empathic

What does empathic mean?

empathic means "showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states".

How many syllables are in empathic?

empathic has 3 syllables: em-pa-thic. The stress falls on "pa".

What is another word for empathic?

Close synonyms include empathetic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is empathic a common word?

empathic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.