empath

Etymology

From empathy.

noun

1. One who has the ability to sense emotions; someone who is empathic or practises empathy.
2. (science fiction, parapsychology) A person with extra-sensory empathic ability, capable of sensing the emotions of others around them in a way unexplained by conventional science and psychology.
   She was the empath who would betray empaths if she got the chance. So they'd tried to fix things so that she didn't get the chance. 1957, Hans Stefan Santesson, editor, Fantastic Universe
   How did a complete stranger know he was an empath? He rarely if ever talked about it, even to his closest friends. It made people uneasy. 2005, Catherine Asaro, Schism
   The aura may, in fact, linger around objects or places and that "lingering energy" is what an empath senses and intuits. 2007, Ellen Dugan, Natural Witchery