My facts are PERFECTLY correct, below is a quote from the online Oxford English Thesaurus:
Main Entry:empathyPart of Speech:nounDefinition:understandingSynonyms:affinity, appreciation, being on same wavelength, being there for someone, communion, community of interests, compassion, comprehension, concord, cottoning to, good vibrations, hitting it off, insight, picking up on, pity, rapport, recognition, responsiveness, soul, sympathy, warmth
As you will see under Synonym there is the word: COMPASSION.
And as synonym translates as ' a word that means the same' , I believe that then means empathy is the same as compassion.
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