Empathy

Empathic psychics were, according to Emma Grayling, psychics who sensed feelings like telepaths read thoughts. She described her own powers, however, as intermittent, indicating to Clara that she could only do it "sometimes". The Eleventh Doctor offered the alternate word empathics, and called them "the most compassionate people" and "the loneliest", due to the fact that they opened themselves up to "all those hidden feelings, all that guilt, pain and sorrow". (TV: Hide)