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"text": "She had a lot of empathy for her neighbor; she knew what it was like to lose a parent too.",
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"ref": "2022 January 28, Em Beihold, Nick Lopez, Dru DeCaro, “Numb Little Bug”, in Egg in the Backseat, performed by Em Beihold",
"text": "Like your body's in the room but you're not really there / Like you have empathy inside but you don't really care / Like you're fresh outta love but it's been in the air / Am I past repair?",
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"roman": "spivčuttjá",
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"sense": "capacity to understand another person's point of view",
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},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "capacity to understand another person's point of view",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "empatia"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "capacity to understand another person's point of view",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "empatia"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "capacity to understand another person's point of view",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "empatie"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sočúvstvije",
"sense": "capacity to understand another person's point of view",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "сочу́вствие"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sopereživánije",
"sense": "capacity to understand another person's point of view",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "сопережива́ние"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "empátija",
"sense": "capacity to understand another person's point of view",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "эмпа́тия"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "capacity to understand another person's point of view",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "co-fhaireachdainn"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "capacity to understand another person's point of view",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "iochd"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "capacity to understand another person's point of view",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "empatía"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "capacity to understand another person's point of view",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "empati"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "capacity to understand another person's point of view",
"word": "cộng cảm"
}
],
"word": "empathy"
}
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