Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24011918-20131214001227/@comment-24011918-20131217104848

Necrosanity wrote: Silverspots wrote: First, yea, I was the original poster, and second: What you're describing there is sympathy, not empathy. aeiou c:

Well. Enlighten me, if you would: What's the difference? I've seen the two as interchangeable up until now. .-.

Sympathy means you can understand what the other person is going through. "John had the deepest sympathies for the loss of Mary's pet rabbit". And Empathy is a bit deeper, it's basically the same as sympathy, but you can relate to the feelings the other is feeling, e.g. "Greg had empathy for John's plight to lose weight, as he had gone through the same thing".

And y'know, The censor I can see working, I'd just like the users stupid or arrogant enough to use that as an insult get a little what for.