No, it&#x27;s not. It&#x27;s sympathy. Empathy involves a bit of imagination that most people lack.<p>edit:<p>&quot;Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another being (a human or non-human animal) is experiencing from within the other being&#x27;s frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another&#x27;s position.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Empathy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Empathy</a><p>It&#x27;s just the way that these words happen to be defined in English. They stand for different, but related concepts.