empath

plural empaths

1. Someone with an extraordinarily high capability of sensing the emotions of others.
   1. Someone who does so through psychological talent or training, thus having an unusually good level of empathy.
   2. literatureSomeone who does so through psychicness, telepathy, etc: that is, through either supernatural powers or neurotechnological powers.

      Near-synonyms: telempath, telepath

      3 more examples

      She was the empath who would betray empaths if she got the chance. So they'd tried to fix things so that she didn't get the chance.

      1957, Hans Stefan Santesson, editor, Fantastic Universe

      How did a complete stranger know he was an empath? He rarely if ever talked about it, even to his closest friends. It made people uneasy.

      2005, Catherine Asaro, Schism

      The aura may, in fact, linger around objects or places and that "lingering energy" is what an empath senses and intuits.

      2007, Ellen Dugan, Natural Witchery

      Synonyms: telempath, telepath