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Sharing vs Sympathy - What's the difference?

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Sharing is a related term of sympathy.


As nouns the difference between sharing and sympathy

is that sharing is something shared while sympathy is a feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.

As a verb sharing

is .

sharing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * sharing economy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something shared.
  • * 1997 , Roger Blench, ?Matthew Spriggs, Archaeology and Language I
    • IE also has sharings with Nakh-Daghestanian, Semitic, and Sumerian. IE and Kartvelian, and no other languages, share numerals with Semitic.

    Anagrams

    *

    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)