Empathy vs Crying - What's the difference?
empathy | crying |
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
That demands action or attention.
That deserves rebuke or censure.
As nouns the difference between empathy and crying
is that empathy is the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person while crying is action of the verb cry.As an adjective crying is
that demands action or attention.As a verb crying 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”.crying
English
(wikipedia crying)Adjective
(-)- There is a crying need for more manual workers in this country.
- It is a crying shame that he managed to get away with that!