About The Word Pathos
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Pathos
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What's The Definition Of Pathos?
[n] a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow); "the film captured all the pathos of their situation"
[n] a style that has the power to evoke feelings [n] a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" Synonyms | Synonyms for Pathos: commiseration | pity | poignancy | ruth Related Terms | Find terms related to Pathos: bathos | benevolence | bitterness | bleakness | caring | cheerlessness | chord | clemency | comfortlessness | commiseration | compassion | concern | condolence | depression | discomfort | dismalness | distress | distressfulness | dreariness | echo | empathy | favor | feeling | fellow feeling | forbearance | forgiveness | grace | grief | grievousness | heaviness | heaviness of heart | heavy heart | heavyheartedness | humanity | identification | involvement | joylessness | kindness | lamentability | lamentation | leniency | mercy | mitigation | mournfulness | pain | painfulness | pardon | pitiability | pitiableness | pitifulness | pity | poignancy | quarter | regrettableness | relating | relief | reprieve | response | responsiveness | ruth | sadheartedness | sadness | self-pity | sharing | sharpness | sorrowfulness | sympathetic chord | sympathetic response | sympathy | vibes | vibrations | woebegoneness | woefulness See Also | expressive style | fellow feeling | quality | style | sympathy Pathos In Webster's Dictionary \Pa"thos\, n.
1. The quality or character of those emotions, traits, or
experiences which are personal, and therefore restricted
and evanescent; transitory and idiosyncratic dispositions
or feelings as distinguished from those which are
universal and deep-seated in character; -- opposed to
{ethos}.
2. Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
\Pa"thos\, n. [L., from Gr. pa`qos a suffering, passion, fr. ?, ?, to suffer; cf. ? toil, L. pati to suffer, E. patient.] That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry. The combination of incident, and the pathos of catastrophe. --T. Warton. |
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