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Empathize vs Fellowfeel - What's the difference?

empathize | fellowfeel |

As verbs the difference between empathize and fellowfeel

is that empathize is to feel empathy for another person while fellowfeel is to empathize or sympathize.

empathize

English

Alternative forms

* empathise (British, Canadian, Australian)

Verb

(en-verb)
  • to feel empathy for another person
  • * 2001, Alias (TV, episode 1.03)
    • Must have been [...] devastating when Kenny was killed. But I want you to know that you can trust me. I understand you. I empathize .

    Usage notes

    Used similarly to sympathize, interchangeably in looser usage. In stricter usage, empathize is stronger and more intimate, while (term) is weaker and more distant; see .

    fellowfeel

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To empathize or sympathize.
  • *1650', '''''Daniel Rogers'' , '' Naaman the Syrian, His Disease and Cure
  • *:We should count her a very tender mother which should bear the pain twice, and fellowfeel the infant's strivings and wrestlings the second time, rather than want her child.