What do you call a person with no sympathy or empathy?

Uncompassionate means indifferent or uncaring about the way other people feel. An uncompassionate person isn’t emotionally affected by the sight of someone who’s crying. This adjective is formed by adding un-, “not,” to compassionate, “feeling sympathy or concern for others.”

What do you call people who Cannot sympathize?

If you lack sympathy (a feeling of sadness on behalf of someone else), you’re unsympathetic: “I’m unsympathetic about her missing cashmere scarf, since I happen to know she has three more at home.” It can also mean “unappealing” or “unlikeable.” Darth Vader, up to a point, is a decidedly unsympathetic movie character.

What does it mean if a person has no empathy?

People who have low empathy may excessively criticize other people for experiencing or expressing emotions in certain scenarios. Someone with a lack of empathy may also blame the person for what they’re experiencing. For example, they may say things like, “If you didn’t do those things, you wouldn’t be in trouble now.”

What is uncompassionate?

Definition of uncompassionate : devoid of feeling, sympathy, or compassion an uncompassionate statement/person/policy.

What does Unempathetic mean?

Adjective. unempathetic (comparative more unempathetic, superlative most unempathetic) Lacking empathy.

What does it mean to be a person without empathy?

A person without empathy is usually someone who fits somewhere on the Cluster B Personality Disorder spectrums. Here is a list of traits of the 4 Cluster B disorders: Personality disorders – Symptoms and causes Cluster B’s do not make good life partners and your recent experience demonstrates one of the primary reasons.

How do you deal with people who don’t show empathy?

Try not to take it personally; not everyone has reached emotional maturity, and sadly, some people never will. A lack of empathy is not a reflection on you, or the authenticity of your feelings, but is an unfortunate inability to appreciate them.

Why won’t my fiancee show compassion to me?

Your fiancee could have a different mental disorder underlying her lack of ability to show compassion, for example, clinical depression, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, but if her affect is normal, I would suspect a Cluster B PD. Do some good, exhaustive research. Perhaps discuss this with a mental health professional.

What is the difference between sympathy and empathy?

Some people define sympathy as merely a different type of empathy. For them, the definition above for sympathy is affective empathy, i.e., you are feeling, to some extent, what the other person is feeling.