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Unsympathetic vs Unempathetic - What's the difference?

unsympathetic | unempathetic |

As adjectives the difference between unsympathetic and unempathetic

is that unsympathetic is not sympathetic while unempathetic is lacking empathy.

unsympathetic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • not sympathetic

    • unempathetic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lacking empathy.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=September 24, author=Sarah Lyall, title=Recalling a Home That Really Is a Castle, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=But he could be equally exasperating, obsessive, unempathetic and prone to sudden fits of violence that, invariably, filled him with remorse and self-loathing after the fact. }}