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en-wikipedia-org-3205		Sympathy - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4775	624	55	One popular and recent conception of the distinction is that sympathy represents "a feeling of care and concern for someone, often someone close, accompanied by a wish to see him better off or happier," while empathy represents "a person's ability to recognize and share the emotions of another person, fictional character, or sentient being." This definition of empathy also emphasizes seeing someone else's situation from their perspective.[5] On its page for the definition of empathy, Merriam-Webster defines it as "the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner".[6] However, it also appears to contradict this definition in its description of the distinction between sympathy and empathy where it defines that sympathy is when you share the feelings of another, whereas empathy is when you can imagine or understand how someone might feel but without necessarily also having those feelings.[3] These divergent explanations for the differences between sympathy and empathy represent essentially opposite approaches to understanding the words.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3205.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3205.txt