 Empathic or empathetic? I'm generally word adept, but I've never figured this one out. Help me on the comments board. Empathic or empathetic? Empathetic has pathetic in it, so I hope it's not that. It just sounds wrong. Anyway, I'm never excited about anybody else's program around here unless, I don't know, unless they've got Steve Wynn as the guest. Then I get overheated. It's difficult to contain myself.