Sympathy vs Condolence - What's the difference?
sympathy | condolence |
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)
Tendency towards or approval of the aims of a movement.
(uncountable) comfort, support or sympathy
(countable, usually plural) An expression of comfort, support, or sympathy offered to the family and friends of somebody who has died
As nouns the difference between sympathy and condolence
is that sympathy is a feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion while condolence is comfort, support or sympathy.sympathy
English
(wikipedia sympathy)Noun
(sympathies)- 'Sympathy' likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.
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)condolence
English
Noun
- There was not much to do after the accident but offer what condolence I could.
- I sent her a card expressing my condolences after her mother passed away.
