In a manner showing empathy; with understanding and shared feeling for another person.
From empathetic + -ally. 'Empathetic' comes from 'empathy,' which is from German 'Einfühlung' (feeling into), coined by psychologist Robert Vischer in 1873. The -ally suffix creates an adverb.
Empathy is a remarkably recent word—it was invented in the 1870s by German psychologists and didn't become common in English until the 20th century, yet now it's everywhere, showing how new concepts can reshape our emotional vocabulary.
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