Empathy is one's ability to recognize and understand the emotion of another. As the states of mind, beliefs, and desires of others are intertwined with their emotions, one with empathy for another may often be able to more effectively divine another's modes of thought and mood. Empathy is often characterized as the ability to "put oneself into another's shoes", or experiencing the outlook or emotions of another being within oneself, a sort of emotional resonance.

A type of telepathic reception limited to the perception of emotions; obviously this talent would tie in nicely with absorption.

Empathy and Sympthy sound the same, but have to different meanings. Sympathy is when you show sympthy to someone, and are saddened by what they are going through. Let's say a friend's brother died. Empathy is when you feel their pain as if you were the one who lost your own brother. Some people have this part of this ESP (extra sensatory perception).

The feeling of Empathy can be good and can be scary. Feelings of happiness can be good, but dark feelings from another and you pick them up can be scary. To have your own feelings pushed aside and have someone else's take over is a sense of no control over yourself.