Difference between Empathise and Understand

What is the difference between Empathise and Understand?

Empathise as a verb is to feel empathy for another person while Understand as a verb is to be aware of the meaning of.

Empathise

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To feel empathy for another person

Understand

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To be aware of the meaning of.To believe, based on information.To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated.To apply values (axioms).

Example sentence: All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

We hope you now know whether to use Empathise or Understand in your sentence.

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