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sympathy | empathic |

As a noun sympathy

is a feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.

As an adjective empathic is

showing or expressing empathy.

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)

    empathic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing or expressing empathy.
  • (science fiction) Of, pertaining to, or being an empath: of or having the capability of sensing the emotions of others.

    • Synonyms

    * empathetic

    Antonyms

    * apathetic

    Anagrams

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