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Empathy is understanding what someone is going thru and feeling sorry for them and sympathy is just feeling sorry for someone.

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What is the deference between sympathy and empathy?

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.


How do you show empathy?

You do not 'show' empathy. You would show sympathy. Empathy is the understanding of, or the relating to, emotions in others.yfqjs


What are words containing the root word -path-?

Empathy and Sympathy are two of the many words that contain the root word -path.


Is empathy the opposite of antipathy?

No. Antipathy is the opposite of sympathy.


The difference between empathy and sympathy?

Sympathy is similar to commiseration: you feel for someone who is going though something difficult or painful. Empathy, on the other hand, is the capacity to put yourself in someone else's shoes and understand that person's feelings, state of mind, etc.


What are some words end with the suffix thy?

Some words that end with the suffix "thy" include loyalty, honesty, and sympathy.


Is compassionate adjective?

Yes, it is. It is the adjective form of the noun compassion (sympathy, empathy).


What rhymes with empathy?

reaction, fraction, refraction, putrefaction,


How do you say 'empathy' in Chinese?

同情 Tóng qíng, which actually also means sympathy.


Is empathy a disorder?

No - Empathy is a positive feeling/emotion that means to be able to identify within yourself with someone else's feelings/emotions - being able to walk in someone else's shoes so to speak. It is usually hard for one to differentiate between sympathy and empathy but when they do this is a positive thing within one self.


What is the difference between love and empathy?

Empathy is identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings, or motives. Love has many definitions, including: affectionate concern for the well-being of others. NOTE ALSO the word Sympathy ; and see the Related Question shown below.


What part of speech is the word sympathy?

The word 'empathy' is the English translation by Titchener in 1909 of the German word 'Einfühlung' 'Einfühlung' is a concept borrowed from aesthetics meaning: 'to project yourself into what you observe'