How to say "empathy" in Japanese

• 共感きょうかんJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbCovers empathy in its core sense: feeling along with another person, sharing or identifying with their emotions. Use it when you feel someone's pain or joy as if it were your own.
  あなたの考え方かんがえかたには共感きょうかんできます。↗

  I really agree with what you're saying.
• 人情にんじょうJLPT N1approx.Common
  nounCenters on humanity and human warmth: the kindness, compassion, and sympathy people feel for one another. It is seldom the word for empathizing with someone's particular feelings; for that, use 共感.

Use 共感 for empathy as feeling along with someone, sharing or identifying with their emotions, and 人情 for the warmer sense of human kindness, compassion, and sympathy rooted in humanity.

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• 共感きょうかんsympathy
• 人情にんじょうhumanity
• エンパシーempathy
• 感情移入かんじょういにゅうempathy
• 自己移入じこいにゅうempathy
• 共感性きょうかんせいempathy