What Is The Word I'm Looking For?

[Patsy33]

When you look at a photograph of say, a child hugging a dog and that obvious love is felt by the viewer? Thanks.
( can't think of words lately) :-))

[Mozz71]

Nausia

hehehe

[JJ109]

Empathy ?

[Patsy33]

Mozz!
No, that's not the word I'm looking for...

[Patsy33]

It begins with a P

[mallyh]

emotional?

[bednobs]

do you mean that you (as the veiwer) can see that the child loves the dog, or that you (the viewer) loves the photo?

[Patsy33]

Stop looking everyone..
It's just came to me.
Palpable! :-)

[Patsy33]

Thanks all.

[bednobs]

if the first, psychic?
if the second, poignant?

[THECORBYLOON]

It was something that is "obvious" rather than specifically, "obvious love" then.

[Peter Pedant]

empathy is deffo one word to describe it

Emotion researchers generally define empathy as the ability to sense other people's emotions, coupled with the ability to imagine what someone else might be thinking or feeling.

[Peter Pedant]

if it is not here
then I dont think it exists

https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/empathy

that is you have a yearning for a word ( yearn yearn....) and there is no word - - - you know like thinking someone is outside etc.....

[Patsy33]

Thanks PP, but I found it at 12.26. The word was Palpable. I probably didn't explain very well. :-)