Commiseration vs Sympathy - What's the difference?
commiseration | sympathy |
The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.
The ability to share the feelings of another.
A mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
* 1997 , Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
Tendency towards or approval of the aims of a movement.
As nouns the difference between commiseration and sympathy
is that commiseration is the act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion while sympathy is a feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.commiseration
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Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
sympathy
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(wikipedia sympathy)Noun
(sympathies)- 'Sympathy' likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.