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And I've met plenty of people who can pick up on people's moods and know that people who mock others' misfortunes are cruel without calling themselves empaths.

For what it's worth, that's essentially how Wikipedia describes it:

Empath (/ˈɛmpæθ/; from Ancient Greek ἐμπάθεια (empátheia) 'passion') is a term for people who are claimed to have a higher than usual level of empathy.

In parapsychology, the mechanism for being an empath is said to be psychic channeling; psychics and mediums say that they channel the emotional states and experiences of other living beings, or the spirits of dead people, in the form of "emotional resonance." Studies of such claims have found them to be the result of mundane empathy and charisma, with no actual supernatural capabilities involved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empath