condolences vs empathy

condolences

noun
  • comfort, support, or sympathy offered especially to the family and friends of somebody who has died. 

intj
  • Expressing sympathy to someone, especially after learning of a close death. 

empathy

noun
  • Identification with or understanding of the thoughts, feelings, or emotional state of another person. 

  • Capacity to understand another person's point of view or the result of such understanding. 

  • A paranormal ability to psychically read another person's emotions. 

How often have the words condolences and empathy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )