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Empath vs Introvert - What's the difference?

empath | introvert |

As nouns the difference between empath and introvert

is that empath is one who has the ability to sense emotions; someone who is empathic or practises empathy while introvert is one who focuses primarily on their own mind, feelings, or affairs.

As an adjective introvert is

(of a person) who focuses primarily on their own mind, feelings, or affairs.

empath

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who has the ability to sense emotions; someone who is empathic or practises empathy.
  • (science fiction, parapsychology) A person with extra-sensory empathic ability, capable of sensing the emotions of others around them in a way unexplained by conventional science and psychology.
  • * 1957 , Hans Stefan Santesson (editor), Fantastic Universe
    • She was the empath who would betray empaths if she got the chance. So they'd tried to fix things so that she didn't get the chance.
  • * 2005 , Catherine Asaro, Schism
    • How did a complete stranger know he was an empath ? He rarely if ever talked about it, even to his closest friends. It made people uneasy.
  • * 2007 , Ellen Dugan, Natural Witchery
    • The aura may, in fact, linger around objects or places and that "lingering energy" is what an empath senses and intuits.

    See also

    * telepath

    introvert

    English

    (Extroversion and introversion)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a person) Who focuses primarily on their own mind, feelings, or affairs.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who focuses primarily on their own mind, feelings, or affairs.

    • Antonyms

    * extrovert

    Derived terms

    * introversion * introversive * introverted * introverting

    See also

    * ambivert ----