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  • adjective Not empathetic.

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non- +‎ empathetic

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Examples

  • The book you mentioned does seem very callous toward people with disabilities, very nonempathetic.

    Medical Week, "Relax" (an odd term), and my dance. Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • As a nurse-student consultant among interdisciplinary nonstudent-consultants I experienced dependency for my being and doing on persons I viewed as anxious, critical, nonempathetic, and inadequate.

    Humanistic Nursing Josephine G. Paterson

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