Resonate
Hi teachers,
Quote from a show: With autism, you resonate with other people's emotions, you just don't understand them. With psychopathy, you understand other people's emotions, you just don't feel them.
Does "resonate with" here mean "feel"? Can you suggest other words for the underline verb? [Resonate is a big word for me so I think it'd be a year or two before I can use it]
Thank you
TN
Top answer
The physical meaning of "resonate" is something like "vibrate in sympathy with". For example, if you pluck a guitar string then the soundboard will resonate. The figurative sense, as used in your sentence, should hopefully be clear from that example.
- The physical meaning of "resonate" is something like "vibrate in sympathy with".
- For example, if you pluck a guitar string then the soundboard will resonate.
- The figurative sense, as used in your sentence, should hopefully be clear from that example.
- However, I am puzzled about the sentence as a whole.
- I thought "resonate with other people's emotions" was exactly the kind of thing that people with autism didn't do.
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The physical meaning of "resonate" is something like "vibrate in sympathy with". For example, if you pluck a guitar string then the soundboard will resonate. The figurative sense, as used in your sentence, should hopefully be clear from that example. However, I am puzzled about the sentence as a whole. I thought "resonate with other people's emotions" was exactly the kind of thing that people
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