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Humility vs Sympathy - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between humility and sympathy

is that humility is the characteristic of being humble; humbleness in character and behavior while sympathy is a feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.

humility

English

(wikipedia humility)

Noun

  • The characteristic of being humble; humbleness in character and behavior.

    • Usage notes

    * Commonly used to mean “modesty, lack of pride” (with respect to one’s achievements), and in formal religious contexts to refer to a transcendent egolessness.

    Synonyms

    * egolessness, humilitude, meekness, modesty, self-effacement

    Antonyms

    * pride

    Related terms

    * humble * humiliate * humiliation * humus

    External links

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    sympathy

    English

    (wikipedia sympathy)

    Noun

    (sympathies)
  • 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)
    • 'Sympathy' likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.
  • Tendency towards or approval of the aims of a movement.

    • Usage notes

    * Used similarly to empathy, interchangeably in looser usage. In stricter usage, (term) is stronger and more intimate, while sympathy is weaker and more distant; see .

    Antonyms

    * contempt (context-dependent)

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l), (l)