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Resonance vs Empathy - What's the difference?

resonance | empathy |

As nouns the difference between resonance and empathy

is that resonance is resonance while empathy is the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person.

resonance

English

(wikipedia resonance) (versity)

Noun

  • The condition of being resonant.
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  • A resonant sound, echo
  • (figuratively) Something that evokes an association, or a strong emotion.
  • (physics) The increase in the amplitude of an oscillation of a system under the influence of a periodic force whose frequency is close to that of the system's natural frequency.
  • (nuclear physics) A short-lived subatomic particle that cannot be observed directly.
  • * 2004', When experiments with the first ‘atom-smashers’ took place in the 1950s to 1960s, many short-lived heavier siblings of the proton and neutron, known as ‘'''resonances ’, were discovered. — Frank Close, ''Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2004, p. 35)
  • An increase in the strength or duration of a musical tone produced by sympathetic vibration.
  • (chemistry) The property of a compound that can be visualized as having two structures differing only in the distribution of electrons.

    • Related terms

    * resonate * resonator * resonant

    empathy

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia empathy)
  • 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
    • She had a lot of empathy for her neighbor; she knew what it was like to lose a parent too.
  • (parapsychology, science fiction) a paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions

    • 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”.