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I can't find this one in any book, but empaths should be a word for two people whose minds travel the same emotive path.
Empathizer does not cut it.
Is "empath" out or in? Should be in if it's out.
Greetings here from Orion, empathic and refulgent in my many spheres,
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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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Dear Orion: The coinage you suggest has problem that "path" often means disease. I tried to find or coin a word to fit what you suggest, a person talented in understanding and sharing the feelings of others, but could not find or devise one.
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Dear wwh,
So much the loss for psychology, its own path ridden with briars and brambles.
I've known so many paths and orbits that have offered nothing short of bliss.
Again, so much the loss for psychology.
Back into orbit,
OrB
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Dear Cap,
Always delicately: "By the way, with the sobriquet "OrB", does going to bed at night constitute a form of deOrBiting?"
Gracefulness in deOrBiting is all,
OrB
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Nother problem with empath is it's used in certain genres of fiction to mean a person who is incredibly sensitive to the feelings of other people, to the point of appearing to read their minds. Councellor Troi on StarTrek: TNG was an empath.
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Faldage: You're too damned modest. That sounds exactly like what Orion wanted.
"I believe she's got it!
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sounds exactly like what Orion wanted.
Sounded to me like she was after a word describing two more or less normal people who thought alike naturally. I think of the word simpatico, but that's an adjective. Don't know the noun form; simpatichistos?
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I still plump for empaths. Deanna Troy and other sci-fi usage aside, it should be easy enough for locutors to understand the meaning of the noun from the adjective.
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Dear Faldage:
No! Not simpatico! That's not deep enough here. I am talking about empathy to the 9th degree that is, if not mind reading, soul reading.
Thanks for the Star Trek reference, by the way. There's an empath for you!
Simpatico is too insipipatico here! I'm not looking for sympathy here--but deepest degree of empathy--right there in the center of the soul's gut!
Who said I was a woman? Ha!
Back to night lights and flights,
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