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Sympathy vs Likeability - What's the difference?

sympathy | likeability |

As nouns the difference between sympathy and likeability

is that sympathy is a feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion while likeability is the property that makes a person likeable, that allows them to be liked.

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)

    likeability

    English

    Alternative forms

    * likability

    Noun

    (likeabilities)
  • The property that makes a person likeable, that allows them to be liked.
  • * 1975 , Leonard Berkowitz, A survey of social psychology?
    • Attractiveness and likeability isn't simply a matter of sexual desirability.
  • * 1998 , John Philip Jones, How advertising works
    • Perhaps the most striking result of this study was that a simple advertising likeability scale predicted sales winners 87% of the time.
  • * 2004 , Wolfgang Stroebe, Miles Hewstone, The European Review of Social Psychology?
    • In the category condition. participants (1) guessed the targets' academic majors and (2) rated their likeability .