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What is empathy?

a feeling of discomfort about the misfortune of another person
care or concern for another person going through a difficult situation
a desire to eliminate the hurt that another person is experiencing
the ability to recognize and share the emotions of another person

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
"The ability to recognize and share the emotions of another person."

Briefly: empathy is understanding and vicariously experiencing someone else's feelings. The other options describe related but different things — sympathy (care/concern), compassion (desire to help), and personal distress (feeling uncomfortable at another's misfortune).