A synonym for "feeling into"
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The word empathy was introduced into the English language just over a century ago as a translation of the German word einfuhlung, which means “feeling into.” Einfuhlung was used in nineteenth-century aesthetic philosophy to describe our capacity to mentally get inside works of art and even nature itself, to have something like a first-person experience from the object’s perspective. Empathy still means something like “feeling into,” but it almost always refers to our connecting with another person’s experience, rather than “getting inside” an object.
Reference: Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired To Connect.
So, what does "feeling into" mean here? to get into someone else's mind? just finding a way to discover their thoughts?
I guess I have to find a meaning related to the word "feel"; a meaning that somehow embody the essence of feeling. Am I wrong?
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D Do you realize that there is a actual English verb (empathize) dderived from the noun empathy? com/dictionary/empathize
- D Do you realize that there is a actual English verb (empathize) dderived from the noun empathy?
- com/dictionary/empathize
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D Do you realize that there is a actual English verb (empathize) dderived from the noun empathy?
IsDefinition of empathy
1 : the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully commu
0Bahareh MSo, what does "feeling into" mean here
"Feeling into" is a literal translation of the German einfuhlung. "Feeling into" does not mean anything in English. You have to use your imagination and guess what a German means when he says that.
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