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Feeling sympathy for someone is feeling pity or feeling sorry for someone's misfortune. In other words feeling bad for something that happens to a person.
Empathy, however, is when you understand and feel how another person feels based on their situation. It is similar to putting yourself in their shoes, and really understanding how it feels.
Concerned Sympathy
Empathy is understanding what someone is going thru and feeling sorry for them and sympathy is just feeling sorry for someone.
Sympathy can be both a noun and a verb. As a noun, it refers to feelings of pity and sorrow for someone's misfortune. As a verb, it means to feel or express sympathy or understanding for someone else's situation.
merciless
The word sympathy (sympathies) is an abstract noun; sympathy is also an adjective.
The word "sympathy" is a noun. It refers to feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
I, for one, do not think a person should be with someone out of sympathy. Someone or maybe even both people are bound to get hurt. Being with someone out of sympathy is not helping that person at all. That person should be allowed to find the one who is truly meant for him or her. And the person who is showing the sympathy is missing out on the person who is meant for him or her. Being with someone out of sympathy and not love is leading that person on. It is lying to that person, actually. That person believes that he or she is actually cared for and loved the same way he or she loves and cares for the one who is showing the sympathy. It's just confusion waiting to happen. If that person were to find out, they could end up resenting you possibly forever.
Sympathy gifts can be purchased from many different stores and retailers. Some examples of stores that sell sympathy gifts include GiftTree and Harry & David.
Someone who provides gloomy comfort or sympathy.
When Jack's friend Amy's grandmother died, Jack offered Amy his deepest sympathy.
Basically, sympathy is when you feel for the person (mostly when you feel bad for them). Empathy is when you know exactly how the person feels and can relate and can also feel so much like them, that you react to their emotions.
The opposite of "sympathy" (feeling for someone) could be apathy (lack of feeling).