I'm chancing my arm here, OrB, and tswum may well tear it off at the shoulder when he brings in the big guns (OED, etc.).

I'd say that if you used the word "Empath", most people who know what empathy is would understand what you mean. It would be a backformation from empathy in much the same way that "psychopath" must have been from psychopathy.

By the way, with the sobriquet "OrB", does going to bed at night constitute a form of deOrBiting?


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