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Sympathy vs Solace - What's the difference?

sympathy | solace |

As nouns the difference between sympathy and solace

is that sympathy is a feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion while solace is comfort or consolation in a time of distress.

As a verb solace is

to give solace to; comfort; cheer; console.

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)

    solace

    English

    Noun

  • Comfort or consolation in a time of distress.
    • You cannot put a monetary value on emotional solace .
  • A source of comfort or consolation.
  • * Rambler
    • The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion.

    Synonyms

    * comfort * consolation * relief * support

    Derived terms

    * solaceful * solacement

    Verb

    (solac)
  • To give solace to; comfort; cheer; console.
  • To allay or assuage.
  • To take comfort; to be cheered.
  • * 1593 , , IV. v. 48:
    • But one thing to rejoice and solace in, / And cruel death hath catched it from my sight.

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