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Home » News » The Difference Between Sympathy and Empathy – Christopher S. Penn Blog
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The Difference Between Sympathy and Empathy – Christopher S. Penn Blog

by Edwin Rutsch|Published 21/05/2016

Both words share the root pathos, which originally meant a quality that evokes pity or suffering.

This is the key difference:

Sympathy means to feel pity or suffering with someone.
Empathy means to be inside someone else’s pity or suffering.

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