sympathy vs inclination

inclination vs sympathy

sympathy and inclination both are nouns.

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

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

sympathy: an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
inclination: an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others

Other hypernyms of sympathy include disposition, tendency.

sympathy (noun)	inclination (noun)
an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion	the act of inclining; bending forward
sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)	a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect
a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other	the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
	an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others
	that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking
	(physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
	(geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis)
	(astronomy) the angle between the plane of the orbit and the plane of the ecliptic stated in degrees

Difference between sympathy and inclination

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