Empathy vs Neutrality - What's the difference?
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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
The state or quality of being neutral; the condition of being unengaged in contests between others; state of taking no part on either side; indifference.
* "Men who possess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the interest of their fellow subjects." -Addison.
(obsolete) Indifference in quality; a state neither very good nor bad.
(chemistry): The quality or state of being neutral.
(international law) The condition of a nation or government which refrains from taking part, directly or indirectly, in a war between other powers.
Those who are neutral; a combination of neutral powers or states.
As nouns the difference between empathy and neutrality
is that empathy is the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person while neutrality is the state or quality of being neutral; the condition of being unengaged in contests between others; state of taking no part on either side; indifference.empathy
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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”.neutrality
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(en-noun)- (John Donne)