A horse is easily distinguished from the pony mainly by height. The ponies are shorter than horses. When ponies come to a height up to 14.2 hands (hands are generally used to determine the height of horses and ponies), the horses come to a height of more than 14.2 hands and mostly 15.2 hands.
Learner's definition of SYMPATHY. 1. : the feeling that you care about and are sorry about someone else's trouble, grief, misfortune, etc. : a sympathetic feeling. [noncount] She went to her best friend for sympathy. Letters of sympathy were sent to the families of the victims.
Origin of the Words. The word sympathy comes from the ancient Greek sunpathos, meaning with/together and suffering.. The word was modified in Late Latin to sympathia and then in Middle French to sympathie. Empathy was coined in 1909 by British psychologist Edward B. Titchener.