Empathy vs Vulnerability - 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
(uncountable) Susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.
(countable) a specific weakness in the protections or defences surrounding someone or something.
(computing) a weakness which allows an attacker to reduce a system's security
As nouns the difference between empathy and vulnerability
is that empathy is the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person while vulnerability is (uncountable) susceptibility to attack or injury; the state or condition of being weak or poorly defended.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”.vulnerability
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(wikipedia vulnerability)Noun
- The country recognized their defence vulnerability after an airplane landed in front of the central square without any consequences.