Empathy vs Perspective - What's the difference?
empathy | perspective |
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
A view, vista or outlook.
The appearance of depth in objects, especially as perceived using binocular vision.
The technique of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface.
(figuratively) The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience.
The ability to consider things in such relative perspective
A perspective glass.
* Bishop Joseph Hall
A sound recording technique to adjust and integrate sound sources seemingly naturally.
of, in or relating to perspective
(obsolete) providing visual aid; of or relating to the science of vision; optical
As nouns the difference between empathy and perspective
is that empathy is the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person while perspective is a view, vista or outlook.As an adjective perspective is
of, in or relating to perspective.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”.perspective
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* linear perspective * metaperspective * microperspective * put something into perspectiveAdjective
(en adjective)- a perspective drawing
- (Francis Bacon)