feeling vs sympathy

sympathy vs feeling

feeling and sympathy both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
feeling	Yes	No	No	No
sympathy	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sympathy is a hyponym of feeling; that is, sympathy is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than feeling:

feeling: the experiencing of affective and emotional states
sympathy: sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)

Other hyponyms of feeling include affect, emotion, thing, glow, faintness, soul, soulfulness, passion, passionateness, sentiment, complex, ambivalence, ambivalency, apathy, desire, sex, sexual urge, pleasance, pleasure, pain, painfulness, pang, stab, twinge, liking, dislike, gratitude, ingratitude, ungratefulness, unconcern, shame, pride, pridefulness, humbleness, humility, amazement, astonishment, devastation, expectation, levity, gravity, solemnity, sensitiveness, sensitivity, agitation, calmness, bravery, fearlessness, happiness, sadness, unhappiness, hope, despair, affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness, humor, humour, mood, temper, fellow feeling, enthusiasm, anchorage, disinterest.

feeling (noun)	sympathy (noun)
the experiencing of affective and emotional states	an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
an intuitive understanding of something	sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)
a physical sensation that you experience	a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other
the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

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