Peaceblinkfriend Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary
"empathise versus sympathise" thanks.
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0 01 b 00 empathize: 02 b 00 the ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in their situation 02 br 01 b 00 sympathise: 02 b 00 to understand and care about someone's problems 02 br 02 br 0-
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0 01 b 00 empathize: 02 b 00 the ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in their situation 02 br
01 b 00 sympathise: 02 b 00 to understand and care about someone's problems 02 br
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01 b 00 sympathise: 02 b 00 to understand and care about someone's problems 02 br
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00 My belief is that empathy requires understanding of the actual hurt while sympathy is less personal and is sorry for the effect of the event rather than the event itself. 0-
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00 My belief is that empathy requires understanding of the actual hurt while sympathy is less personal and is sorry for the effect of the event rather than the event itself. 0-
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Empathetic or Empathy. If sympathy is about CARING and UNDERSTANDING someone else's matter, then empathy REALLY means NOT CARING (So MUCH or it's really IRRELEVANT how much you really care ) about someone else's matter, YET you only understanding the core matter of said other's situation.
I've been fighting this one too.
I've been fighting this one too.
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Empathise is feeling sorry through having had a similar or same experience.
Sympathise is feeling sorry for someone - without having had similar or same experience.
Sympathise is feeling sorry for someone - without having had similar or same experience.
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According to http://venomwords.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/empathising-and-sympathising/
It's the other way round.
Empathy is about understanding and relating to a person's feelings.
Sympathy is about showing pity to a person.
It's the other way round.
Empathy is about understanding and relating to a person's feelings.
Sympathy is about showing pity to a person.
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I am a philosophy student who has studied the philosophy of emotion. I broadly agree that these are the accepted meanings.
Empathy involves being able to understand someone else's thoughts and feelings because you can imagine what it is like to be in their situation.
Sympathy involves feeling the same emotion as someone else because you are close to them, usually spontaneously. I
Empathy involves being able to understand someone else's thoughts and feelings because you can imagine what it is like to be in their situation.
Sympathy involves feeling the same emotion as someone else because you are close to them, usually spontaneously. I
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I concur with your understanding of the difference in terms. If say...one had broken a leg....and then met someone later on who had also broken their leg..you could easily "empathise" with them. In other words - you had experienced it yourself.
If you had never had the experience of breaking a leg - and met a person who had...you could "sympathise" with them. You could extend your sympathy to
If you had never had the experience of breaking a leg - and met a person who had...you could "sympathise" with them. You could extend your sympathy to
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You are absolutely totally wrong on that score.
Empathy is a grade deeper than sympathy. A judge in a court of law can be sympathetic before he passes sentence.
If he was truly empathetic he would have to ask for the case to be heard by a different judge!
A person who is empathetic can feel the pain and cry real tears of sadness or distress in the same way as the injured par
Empathy is a grade deeper than sympathy. A judge in a court of law can be sympathetic before he passes sentence.
If he was truly empathetic he would have to ask for the case to be heard by a different judge!
A person who is empathetic can feel the pain and cry real tears of sadness or distress in the same way as the injured par
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