Full record for empathy n.

Definition	The (extra-)sensory perception of others emotions
OED requirements	antedating 1955
Earliest cite	Poul Anderson, The Long Way Home
Comment	Mike Christie submitted a 1956 cite from J.T. McIntosh's "Empath". Douglas Winston submitted a cite from a 1969 reprint of Harry Harrison's "Deathworld", which Mike Christie verified in the 1960 magazine serialization. Douglas Winston submitted a cite from a 1985 reprint of Poul Anderson's 1966 "Ensign Flandry". Douglas Winston submitted a 2002 cite from a reprint of Sarah Zettel's "Kingdom of Cages". Douglas Winston submitted a cite from a 1994 reprint of Poul Anderson's "The Day of Their Return", which Mike Christie located in an earlier reprint from 1975. Douglas Winston submitted a cite from a 1984 Colin Kapp's "The Tyrant of Hades", which Mike Chritie verified in the 1982 first edition. Douglas Winston submitted a 1999 cite from Lisanne Norman's "Dark Nadir". Malcolm Farmer submitted a 1955 cite from Poul Anderson's "The Long Way Home"
Last modified	6 July, 2008

Citations for empathy n.

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1956 ‘J. T. McIntosh’ Empath in New Worlds Aug. 40	The Circle's trying to get Tim without using empathy. They're all blanking out.
1971 J. Blish Star Trek 4 39	It appears it learned more from me during our empathy than I did from it.
1983 S. Marshak & M. Culbreath Triangle v. 31	Unless some alien interference had cut off the ‘carrier wave’ of some kind of empathy which they seemed to have between them.
1986 D. Carey Battlestations! v. 73	She commented, curbing her tone of empathy.
1993 D. Carey Great Starship Race xiv. 213	They'd shared empathy before, but this kind?
1996 J. Gunn Joy Machine xii. 197	He would identify with the empathy that lived inside him in his better moments.
1998 L. A. Graf & M. J. Friedman War Dragons viii. 132	And of course the undeniable necessity of empathy with my own very human sense of pride.