William Safire公认是词源学的专家，他在2008年给了"empathy"与"sympathy"清楚的界定。对观众来说，对角色感到同情是正常的，不过可别觉得这样就够了，如果这样的话，观众会将情感抽出。Safire说：如果你认为同理跟同情是相同的话，那么我很抱歉你搞混了，回到希腊时代，感伤力(pathos)就是情感(emotion)，"同情"是因为你替别人的处境感到难过，算是"忠诚(allegiance)"这种感受的一种；而"同理"则是从别人的内心或是一件作品之中去感受，不管它是视觉艺术，戏剧或是歌舞剧，不管快乐或悲伤，轻松或是紧张。希腊"sym"这个字首意谓"一起或是靠着"；而动词字首"em"更深入，指"在里面或是内部"，当你感觉" 同情"的时候，你将手臂环抱着这个人；当你"同理"的时候，你脑袋里的想法或思绪跟对方的一致，两者差别非常大。
"If you think empathy is the synonym of sympathy, I’m sorry for your confusion. Back to the Greeks: pathos is “emotion.” Sympathy feels pity for another person’s troubles, secondarily a sense of allegiance; empathy identifies with whatever is going on in another’s mind or in a work of art — visual, dramatic, musical — whether merry or morose, hanging loose or uptight. The Greek prefix sym means “together with, alongside”; the verbal prefix em goes deeper, meaning “within, inside.” When you’re sympathetic, your arm goes around the shoulders of others; when you’re empathetic, your mind lines up with what’s going on inside their heads. Big difference; no nuance."
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