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Absurdity vs Empathy - What's the difference?

absurdity | empathy |

As nouns the difference between absurdity and empathy

is that absurdity is (obsolete|rare) dissonance while empathy is the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person.

absurdity

English

Noun

  • (obsolete, rare) Dissonance.
  • (countable) That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
  • * His travels were full of absurdities . - Johnson
  • (uncountable) The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
  • * The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number. -
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    • Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."

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    empathy

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia empathy)
  • the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person
  • capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding
    • She had a lot of empathy for her neighbor; she knew what it was like to lose a parent too.
  • (parapsychology, science fiction) a paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions

    • Usage notes

    Used similarly to sympathy, interchangeably in looser usage. In stricter usage, empathy is stronger and more intimate, meaning that the subject understands and shares an emotion with the object – as in “I feel your pain” – while (term) is weaker and more distant – concern, but not shared emotion: “I care for you”.