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Where does “unempathetic” come from?

unempathetic (English) comes from English empathetic, from English empathic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.

unempathetic (English): Lacking empathy

Definitions

  1. Lacking empathy

Ancestry of “unempathetic”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishempatheticShowing empathy for others, and recognizing their...
2EnglishempathicShowing or expressing empathy; Of, pertaining to,...
3English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
4EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
5Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
6Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
7Spanishimagenimage
8Italianimmagineimage; imago
9Latinimāginem—
10Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
11Latinīn-—
12Latinîn—
13Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
14Proto-Italicenin
15Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “unempathetic”

  • unempathetically
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