sympathy vs feeling

feeling vs sympathy

sympathy and feeling both are nouns.

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

As nouns, feeling is a hypernym of sympathy; that is, feeling is a word with a broader meaning than sympathy:

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

sympathy (noun)	feeling (noun)
an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion	the experiencing of affective and emotional states
sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)	an intuitive understanding of something
a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other	a physical sensation that you experience
	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

Difference between sympathy and feeling

Words related to "feeling"

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