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what is somthing/someone called when they are around people they can feel what that person feels.or they get the same emotion that a group of people around them have.If they are mad,happy,depressed after a little time somthing/someone starts feeling it too,even if they were not in the mood that the surrounding people are in.so again im just wondering what that is called when somthing/someone gets the same emotions,that the people around them do..........
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
A word that comes to mind is "empathy".
- MelliLv 61 decade ago
Both empathy and sympathy are feelings concerning other people. Sympathy is literally 'feeling with' - compassion for or commiseration with another person. Empathy, by contrast, is literally 'feeling into' - the ability to project one's personality into another person and more fully understand that person.
Webster's defines empathy as the "ability to share in another's emotions, thoughts or feelings." Sympathy, on the other hand, means "sameness of feeling." Key word: sameness.
sympathy (n.) A relationship or an affinity between people or things in which whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other.
- cajun24Lv 51 decade ago
Empathy-
is commonly defined as one's ability to recognize, perceive and directly experientially feel the emotion of another. As the states of mind, beliefs, and desires of others are intertwined with their emotions, one with empathy for another may often be able to more effectively divine another's modes of thought and mood. Empathy is often characterized as the ability to "put oneself into another's shoes", or experiencing the outlook or emotions of another being within oneself, a sort of emotional resonance.
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