Empathize vs Sympathy - What's the difference?
empathize | sympathy |
to feel empathy for another person
* 2001, Alias (TV, episode 1.03)
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 a verb empathize
is to feel empathy for another person.As a noun sympathy is
a feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.empathize
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Alternative forms
* empathise (British, Canadian, Australian)Verb
(en-verb)- 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 .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.