empathy
ability to understand another person's feelings
Root
- path: feeling or suffering
Other words with the path root
- antipathy: strong dislike
- apathy: lack of feeling or concern
- pathetic: arousing pity; weak or inadequate
- pathological: caused by or involving disease; compulsive or unhealthy
- sympathy: shared feeling or compassion
Path is feeling. Empathy is feeling into another person's experience.
A good tutor uses empathy to hear the pressure behind a missed answer.