I have sympathy in one's lost but i also have empathy. So what is the difference?
2006-12-01 10:44:27 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Sympathy is feeling sorry for someone. It is different than compassion, because compassion implies action, meaning that you do something to help the person you feel sorry for. Sympathy is just the feeling. Empathy is deeper than sympathy, because it implies that you have also been through a similar experience as the person you feel sorry for and so have a deeper understanding of what they are going through.
2006-12-01 11:00:52 · answer #1 · answered by shodieanna 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Sympathy is feeling sorry for the person. Sometimes it helps when you feel bad about something that has happened, other times it's the wrong thing to do. Depends on the situation.
Whereas empathy is putting yourself in their shoes and sharing their problems as if they were your own. However it cannot be done all the time.
In most cases, empathy is better than sympathy.
2006-12-01 10:55:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you speak of sympathy you think of feeling bad or good for a person who has had a bad or good thing happen to them. Say you know someone whose parents were in a car accident, you would say oh, I'm so sorry and feel bad for them. To have empathy you would have to try to put yourself in a persons shoes. Like the same person whose parents had and accident, you would mentally put yourself in that persons situation, and feel what they were feeling. The words are similar, but empathy goes much deeper.
2006-12-01 10:56:41 · answer #3 · answered by sarahharris25 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sympathy is feeling bad for someone, empathy is understanding how one feels.
2006-12-01 10:47:04 · answer #4 · answered by b_dubs_3030 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's kinda like this.
Sympathy is where you feel for something. Like to have sympathy for someone who just had a loved one pass away. You don't know whta they're feeling, but you feel bad for them.
Empathy is where you know how someone else feels to a large extent. Like if you just got fired, and your friend just got fired. You have empathy because you know how they feel.
2006-12-01 10:48:09 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sympathy is feeling sad or sorry for someone. Empathy is when you can feel what other people feel sad, happy, angry anything
2006-12-01 10:47:19 · answer #6 · answered by AnarchyAlchemy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sympathy: common or shared feelings, loyalty or support ----empathy: understanding and the capacity to relate to another's feelings, thoughts, even experiences without having the inner emotions of sorrow and tears or laughter-- yet still being able to experience fully in communication and objectivity This is deep and it bears reading twice....
2006-12-01 11:00:07 · answer #7 · answered by XTX 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have sympathy because (as you appear to put it), a person has suffered a loss, I assume the death of a loved one. So, it is natural to feel sorrow for them, for what they are going through at this time.
You empathize with them because you have "been there" in that you have suffered a loss presumably along the same lines, that is the loss of a loved one.As a result, you can understand their loss more acutely because you have experienced the same.
2006-12-01 10:51:20 · answer #8 · answered by Ted 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
empathy is when you feel the emotions of what another person is going through. sympathy is when something affects one person, it affects the other person the same way.
2006-12-01 10:48:30 · answer #9 · answered by fryeindustries2002 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok, sympathy is when you are sorry for someone who is going through a hard time, and empathy is when you actually cry for them and feel their pain! i am a very empathetic person, i didn' t even know this guy who was like literally famous at my school, and he had leukemia, when he died, my friends and i were bawling!
2006-12-01 10:48:07 · answer #10 · answered by <horsesrpeople2> 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋