patience and empathy
- noun
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paciencia y empatía
- She handled the complaint with patience and empathy, making the customer feel valued.
Examples
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Working with children requires a great deal of patience and empathy.
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Successful leaders often demonstrate patience and empathy when facing difficult situations.
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She showed great patience and empathy during the meeting.
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Do you have enough patience and empathy for this job?
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Successful leaders often demonstrate patience and empathy when facing difficult situations.
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Working with children requires a great deal of patience and empathy.
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She handled the complaint with patience and empathy, making the customer feel valued.
Synonyms
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3.6
Showing sympathy and care for other people's feelings
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2.9
Being kind and careful about other people's needs and feelings
Being calm and careful when dealing with difficult or sensitive situations
Antonyms
How Understanding
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: the conjunction 'and' simply links the two known nouns, so the combined meaning is the straightforward sum of 'patience' (calm tolerance) and 'empathy' (understanding others). A B1 learner who knows the constituent words will therefore readily infer the MWE's meaning; the structure is non-idiomatic and cross-linguistically common.
Etymology
Patience and empathy paints a simple picture: patience is quietly waiting without anger, and empathy is imagining you are in another person's shoes to 'feel what they feel'. That's why the phrase means the ability to 'stay calm' and understand others in hard moments.