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Antisocial vs Empath - What's the difference?

antisocial | empath |

As nouns the difference between antisocial and empath

is that antisocial is an antisocial individual while empath is one who has the ability to sense emotions; someone who is empathic or practises empathy.

As an adjective antisocial

is unwilling or unable to associate normally with other people.

antisocial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unwilling or unable to associate normally with other people
  • antagonistic, hostile, or unfriendly toward others; menacing
  • Opposed to social order or the principles of society; hostile toward society

    • Derived terms

    () * antisocially (adverb) * antisociality, the quality of being antisocial * Asbo, antisocial behaviour order * antisocial personality disorder

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An antisocial individual.
    • ----

    empath

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who has the ability to sense emotions; someone who is empathic or practises empathy.
  • (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.
  • * 1957 , Hans Stefan Santesson (editor), Fantastic Universe
    • 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.
  • * 2005 , Catherine Asaro, Schism
    • 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.
  • * 2007 , Ellen Dugan, Natural Witchery
    • The aura may, in fact, linger around objects or places and that "lingering energy" is what an empath senses and intuits.

    See also

    * telepath