Empathy [empatie]
- Terms
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laskavost
soucit
starostlivost
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Caring
Compassion
An individual's objective and insightful awareness of the feelings and behavior of another person. It should be distinguished from sympathy, which is usually nonobjective and noncritical. It includes caring, which is the demonstration of an awareness of and a concern for the good of others. (From Bioethics Thesaurus, 1992)
- DUI
- D004645 MeSH Browser
- CUI
- M0007308
- Previous indexing
- Emotions (1966-1970)
- History note
- 71
- Public note
- 71
Allowable subheadings
- CL
- classification 14
- DE
- drug effects 1
- ES
- ethics 11
- GE
- genetics 1
- PH
- physiology 10
- RE
- radiation effects