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29 Nov 2020
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What's the difference between "empathize" and "understand"? Could you empathize without understanding and vice versa?
What's the difference between "empathize" and "understand"? Could you empathize without understanding and vice versa?
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- English (US)
- Urdu Near fluent
Very different words if put in different sentences.
Empathize means to feel what someone else is feeling.
Understand means to know.
You can KINDA empathize with someone without understanding but it would feel a bit unnatural and you can understand without empathizing because you simply understand what happened and do not share similar emotions
- Simplified Chinese (China)
@makkmuq Thanks! So, is "empathize" something fancier?
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