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Is there a difference between sympathy and compassion, or are they the same?
If a person is really obnoxious, and someone feels bad that they're obviously not a happy person inside, and need to project that on others--would you call that feeling sympathy for them, or having compassion on them?
3 Answers
- Richard FLv 64 years agoFavourite answer
Sympathy is a feeling, compassion is an action. The situation you present means you have sympathy for that person.
- Anonymous4 years ago
sympathy is when you can related to or feel what the other person is feeling, therefore you feel bad that they are sad. Compassion is when you do not know exactly how the other person is feeling but given the reason they are sad, you believe it would be something that would make you sad as well if it happened to you.
Hence, it wouldn't be any of those two, but compassion would be closer than sympathy
- Anonymous4 years ago
It'd be sympathy. Sympathy is feeling bad for other people. Compassion can actually be shown, through showing that you care.
