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What is the difference between empathy and sympathy ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between empathy and sympathy ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Empathy: sharing other people's feelings, almost feeling as though it was yours: "show some empathy, her brother just died!"
Sympathy: appreciation of someone else's personality, declaration: "sympathy for the devil - wooh wooooh" (Rolling Stones song)
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Empathy vs. sympathy
When you understand and feel anotherās feelings for yourself, you have empathy. Itās often spoken of as a character attribute that people have to varying degrees. For example, if hearing a tragic news story makes you feel almost as if the story concerns you personally, you have the ability to empathize.
When you sympathize with someone, you have compassion for that person, but you donāt necessarily feel her feelings. For instance, if your feelings toward someone who is experiencing hardship are limited to sympathy, then you might have a sense of regret for that personās difficulty but are not feeling her feelings as if theyāre your own. Meanwhile, sympathy has broader applications that donāt necessarily have to do with one personās feelings for another. You can sympathize with a cause, for instance, or with a point of view that resonates with you.
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