Someone with empathy would be a great listener and understand what you are going through. Being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes and understand what they are going through on a deeper level is a example of empathy. Someone with sympathy may rub the mourning person's back and say, 'It's going to be okay," while someone who is being empathic would sit and cry with the person.
Dictionary defintion: <em>the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.</em>
