Empathy vs. Apathy

Empathynoun

Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person.

Empathynoun

Capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding.

Empathynoun

A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions.

Empathynoun

understanding and entering into another's feelings

Empathy

Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position. Definitions of empathy encompass a broad range of emotional states.

Apathynoun

Lack of emotion or motivation; lack of interest or enthusiasm towards something; disinterest (in something).

Apathynoun

Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; - applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion.

Apathynoun

an absence of emotion or enthusiasm

Apathynoun

the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally

Apathy

Apathy is a lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or concern about something. It is a state of indifference, or the suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation, or passion.