Sympathy vs Verve - What's the difference?
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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.
Excitement of imagination such as that which animates a poet, artist, or musician, in composing or performing
artistic energy and enthusiasm
vigour, vitality and liveliness
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rapture, enthusiasm
spirit, energy
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Sympathy is a related term of verve.
As nouns the difference between sympathy and verve
is that sympathy is a feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion while verve is .sympathy
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(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)verve
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