Empathy vs Caring - What's the difference?
empathy | caring |
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
(parapsychology, science fiction) a paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions
(of a person) Kind, sensitive, empathetic.
The act of one who cares.
* 1988 , Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy (page 183)
As nouns the difference between caring and empathy
is that caring is the act of one who cares while empathy is the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person.As an adjective caring
is kind, sensitive, empathetic.As a verb caring
is present participle of lang=en.empathy
English
Noun
(wikipedia empathy)- She had a lot of empathy for her neighbor; she knew what it was like to lose a parent too.
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”.caring
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She's a very caring person; she always has a kind word for everyone.
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings .
