🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

auto-empatia

Pronunciation / Transliteration: au-to-em-pa-ti-a

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Self-Empathy/sɛlfˈɛmpəθi/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #1500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"L'auto-empatia è fondamentale per la crescita personale."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The capacity to recognize, understand, and share one's own feelings and emotions.

    "Practicing self-empathy can lead to greater emotional resilience."
  2. 2

    A form of self-reflection that allows individuals to connect with their own emotional experiences.

    "Through self-empathy, she was able to process her feelings after the difficult conversation."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'self-empathy' combines 'self', derived from Old English 'seolf', meaning 'oneself', and 'empathy', which originates from the Greek word 'empatheia', meaning 'passion' or 'state of emotion'. The concept evolved in the 20th century to describe the ability to understand and share one's own feelings.

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