Empath (noun)
em-path
A person who has a particular tendency or ability to psychologically identify with the emotions, thoughts, or attitudes of others.
Empath was first recorded in 1956 in Scottish author J.T. McIntosh’s 1956 “The Empath,” a story about paranormally empathetic beings called empaths.
Example sentences
“she felt it all keenly because she was such an empath.”
