My son is having back troubles.  I feel for him. Not only do I feel sympathy for him, I have empathy for him because I went through the exact same thing a few years back. The words empathy and sympathy are cousins, but they don’t mean the same thing. Those distinctions get pretty blurry nowadays, The word “empathy” is relatively new to we English speakers – barely 100 years old. (link) It comes from the Greek empatheia whic...
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